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“This latest finding should come as a surprise to no one,” said Ned Price, spokesman for the US State Department. “The Assad regime is responsible for innumerable atrocities, some of which rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity." The use of chlorine or any chemical substance in armed conflict is banned under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. The OPCW and the Hauge are in charge of overseeing the application of the convention. This is not the first time the body's investigative team has accused the Assad regime of using chemical weapons. Regardless, Syria has ...

Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons finds "reasonable grounds" that Assad regime carried out February 2018 chlorine attack in NW Syria.

The Syrian regime's air force used the chemical weapon chlorine in an attack on the town of Saraqib in 2018, the global toxic arms watchdog said on Monday after an investigation. The report is the second by an investigations team set up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which has the new power to apportion blame for attacks. The OPCW said in a statement that the Investigations and Identification Team "concludes that units of the Syrian Arab Air Force used chemical weapons in Saraqib on 4 February 2018". "The report reached the conclusion that there are reason...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog has "reasonable grounds to believe" that Syria's air force dropped a chlorine bomb on a residential neighbourhood in the rebel-controlled Idlib region in February 2018, a report released on Monday said.

0 shares A picture taken on February 3, 2018, shows Syrian men standing at the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo. (AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR) THE HAGUE, The Netherlands — The Syrian regime’s air force used the chemical weapon chlorine in an attack on the town of Saraqib in 2018, the global toxic arms watchdog said on Monday after an investigation. The report is the second by an investigations team set up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which has the new power to apportion blame for att...