April 8, 2018 A suspected weekend chemical attack in a Damascus suburb would be at least the eighth since President Trump took office and the worst since he launched a military strike at Syrian government forces last April….
Syria's chemical attacks continue because they make Syrian leader Bashar Assad's chronically undermanned forces more effective, and the Syrian leader believes he can use them with relative impunity, said Andrew Tabler, a Syria analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"The reason they’re using it is to amplify the fear and make the military efforts easier so they can declare victory," Tabler said. And because Russia is running interference for Assad at the U.N., "they think they can get away with it," he said.
Many chemical attacks have been documented since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, according to the United Nations' Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
July 1, 2 and 7, Ayn Tarma, Zamalka, Jowbar — Chlorine was used against Faylaq ar-Rahman fighters, 45 of whom experienced reddening eyes, profuse nasal secretions, coughing, choking and bronchial secretions.
April 7, Al Hayat Hospital — Two men were admitted with symptoms of a chlorine attack.
April 4, Khan Shaykhun — Sarin gas attack killed at least 85 people and injured hundreds.
March 30, Al-Latamneh — Two bombs injured at least 85 people, including two minors and nine medical personnel.
March 29, Qabun — Three rockets were launched; one released a cloud that smelled like chlorine and injured 35 people, including one woman and two children.
March 25, Al-Latamneh Hospital — A helicopter dropped a chlorine barrel bomb, killing three men and injuring 32 people.
Jan. 30, Sultan al-Marj — A chlorine attack near a front-line position injured 11 men.
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2-5-18 Syrian activists say civilians have suffered chlorine gas poisoning during an attack on the rebel-held town of Saraqeb in Idlib province.
The Syrian Civil Defense search-and-rescue group said Sunday night that three of its rescuers and six others were injured by chlorine gas in Saraqeb, a rebel-held town less than 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the front line with government forces. The Syrian American Medical Society says its hospitals in the area treated 11 patients for chlorine gas poisoning. https://www.haaretz.com/
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26 Apr 2017 A chemical analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month "bears the signature" of President Bashar al-Assad's Government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault, France says.
Key points:
• French report says 2017 samples match those from 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria
• Intelligence suggests only the Syrian air force could have launched the attack
• Russia has denounced the report and its conclusions
Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said France made the conclusion after comparing samples from a sarin attack in Syria in 2013 that matched the new ones.
The findings came in a six-page report published on Wednesday.
Russia's Government promptly denounced the French report, saying the samples and the fact the nerve agent was used were not enough to prove who was behind the attack.
Mr Assad has repeatedly denied that his forces used chemical weapons and claimed that evidence of a poison gas attack is made up.
But Mr Ayrault said France knew "from sure sources" that "the manufacturing process of the sarin that was sampled is typical of the method developed in Syrian laboratories”. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-27/france-tests-show-syria-behind-chemical-attack/8474428
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