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Syria’s Chemical Weapons Crisis Demands Action

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Syria’s Chemical Weapons Crisis Demands Action
Opposition fighters celebrate as they burn down a military court in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 8, 2024. The Canadian Press/AP/Hussein Malla
Gregg Roman
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Damascus’s fall creates an immediate security crisis for American interests. While Washington debates appropriate responses, Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles and military infrastructure sit vulnerable to exploitation, transfer, or misuse.

Gregg Roman
Gregg Roman
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Gregg Roman is director and COO of the Middle East Forum. Mr. Roman previously served as director of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. In 2014, he was named one of the ten most inspiring global Jewish leaders by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He previously served as the political advisor to the deputy foreign minister of Israel and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Mr. Roman is a frequent speaker at venues around the world, often appears on television, and has written for the Hill, the Forward, the Albany Times-Union, and other publications. He attended American University in Washington, D.C., and the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, where he studied national security studies and political communications.
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