BEIRUT (AP) — International inspectors in charge of overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons left their hotel in Damascus today to begin their work as deadly clashes raged on the edge of the capital.
The inspectors’ mission — endorsed by a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for Syria’s chemical stockpile to be scrapped by mid- 2014 — faces the tightest deadline ever placed before the experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
It was not clear where the inspectors, who arrived in Syria on Tuesday from neighboring Lebanon, were headed from their hotel in central Damascus. Their work comes against the backdrop of relentless fighting.
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