Assad Regime Used Chemical Weapons on Damascus and Idlib, UN Watchdog Says

The team says banned chlorine was previously used in Idlib, where the UN says it now fears a major imminent assault by Russia, Syria

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Syrian government forces fired chlorine, a banned chemical weapon, on a rebel-held Damascus suburb and on Idlib province this year, in attacks that constitute war crimes, United Nations human rights investigators said on Wednesday.

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