The first shipment of chemical material has been removed from Syria under a deal to rid the country of its chemical arsenal, the joint mission overseeing the disarmament said on Tuesday.
The removal was carried out as the head of Al-Nusra Front called for an end to four days of clashes between rebels and the jehadi Islamic State of Iraq and the levant in which at least 274 people were killed.
“A first quantity of priority chemical materials was moved from two sites to the port of latakia for verification and was then loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel today," the joint UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons mission said. Meanwhile, an NGO on Tuesday claimed at least 34 jehadis were killed after clashes with other rebel movements in Syria's Idlib province.