Monday, April 16, 2018

Most Chemical Attacks in Syria Get Little Attention. Here Are 34 Confirmed Cases. - The New York Times

Most Chemical Attacks in Syria Get Little Attention. Here Are 34 Confirmed Cases. - The New York Times:

"...But if chemical weapons were used in the attack — which Mr. Trump blamed on the Syrian government as well as its Russian and Iranian allies — it would be the latest in a string of such attacks in Syria in the last five years. Syria, Russia and Iran all denied that the Syrian government used chemical weapons.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic says it has confirmed at least 34 chemical attacks since 2013, many of which it said used chlorine or sarin, a nerve agent, and were conducted by the Syrian government...

Hasaka
Sheikh Maqsood
Saraqib
Raqqa
Aleppo
Kafr
Zeita
Latakia
Tamana
Deir al-Zour
Khan
Sheikhoun
SYRIA
Homs
Palmyra
50 MILES
Chemical Attacks
Confirmed in Syria
Douma
An attack here killed
about 70 people on April 7
Sarin
Damascus
Chlorine
A 2013 sarin attack
in Ghouta killed
1,400 people
Chemical not specified
The U.S. launched a strike against
a Syrian air base in response to
this sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun.
At least eight attacks
were confirmed in
April 2014
2013
2014
2015
Data unavailable
2016
2017
The New York Times |Source: Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
It is likely that there have been more than these 34 confirmed chemical attacks in Syria..."
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