A decade after a sarin gas attack devastated the Zamalka neighborhood in Damascus, Syrian survivors share their harrowing experiences.
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Hussein Arbeeni, 41, right, speaks with his brother Hassan Arbeeni, 42, right, outside their house at an alley that was hit by the sarin struck during a 2013 chemical weapons attack that was blamed on then President Bashar Assad's forces, in Zamalka neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.
Syrian girls plays at an alley that was hit by the sarin struck during a 2013 chemical weapons attack that was blamed on then President Bashar Assad's forces, in Zamalka neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. Hussein Arbeeni, 41, right, stands with his brother Hassan Arbeeni, 42, centre, outside their house at an alley that was hit by the sarin struck during a 2013 chemical weapons attack that was blamed on then President Bashar Assad's forces, in Zamalka neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.
A few months earlier, Arbeeni said, the local first responders of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, had instructed residents in the opposition-held suburbs of Damascus what to do in case of a chemical attack. Despite Obama's threat, in the end, Washington settled for a deal with Moscow for Russia-backed Assad to give up his chemical weapons’ stockpile.
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