Syrian air force used chemical weapons in three 2017 attacks, probe finds – By Danielle Haynes & Darryl Coote (UPI) / April 8 2020
April 8 (UPI) — Syria’s Assad regime used sarin and chlorine gas in three attacks on opposition forces in March 2017, a chemical weapons oversight group said in a report released Wednesday.
The Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons said the Syrian air force bombed the town of Latamina using sarin gas on March 24 and 25. In the third attack on March 30, the air force carried out a chlorine gas attack on the same town.
The report was the first published by the OPCW’s new Investigation and Identification Team. The organization is aligned with the United Nations and other international groups.
“The conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has brought immense suffering to the entire Syrian population,” said OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias in a statement. “Scores of lives have been lost or otherwise destroyed, and millions of people have been displaced.
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