Syrian air force likely to blame for 2018 chlorine bombing
Chemical arms watchdog finds no evidence of rebels staging the attack as claimed by the government
Amsterdam — The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), 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.
There was no immediate comment from the Syrian government. Syria and its military ally Russia have consistently denied using chemical weapons during President Bashar al-Assad’s decade-old conflict with rebel forces, saying any such attacks were staged by opponents to make Damascus look like the culprit...
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