Syrian Government Again Accused of Using Chlorine on Civilians

The Syrian government is suspected of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine gas on an opposition-held neighborhood in eastern Aleppo. The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers’ group, said people in the Sukari neighborhood were left suffocating on Tuesday.

This comes just after a United Nations investigation for the first time blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for using chemical weapons. As The Cipher Brief reported two weeks ago, the joint report by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) found that government troops carried out at least two attacks involving chlorine on civilians.

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