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70 Cases of Suffocation After Barrel Bombs Are Dropped on Eastern Aleppo

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 7, 2016 | Middle East

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, barrel bombs dropped on eastern neighbourhoods in the city of Aleppo, northern Syria, yesterday, caused 70 cases of suffocation. Opposition activists accused the Syrian regime’s forces of using poisonous chlorine...

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A woman breathes through an oxygen mask at al-Quds hospital, after a hospital and a civil defense group said a gas, what they believed to be chlorine, was dropped alongside barrel bombs on a neighborhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo, Syria, early August 11, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Rescue Workers Report on Suspected Aleppo Chlorine Attack Choking Dozens

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 6, 2016 | Middle East

A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo had reportedly caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Civil Defense, a rescue workers’ organization...

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [left] speaks at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2013. Source: AP Photo/Jan-Joseph Stok

Report Claims Hard Evidence of Chemical Weapon Use in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 15, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awasat—Hard evidence of chemical weapon use in Syria was found after a soil sample had been smuggled out of the country in a secret British operation, the Times of London reported on Monday. The London-based newspaper cited unnamed defense sources...