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Probe finds Syrian air force likely used chlorine in 2018 attack

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A Syrian boy holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a makeshift hospital following a reported gas attack on the rebel-held besieged town of Douma in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on Jan. 22, 2018. — HASAN MOHAMED/AFP via Getty Images

A new report from the global chemical weapons watchdog found there are “reasonable grounds to believe” the Syrian air force was behind a 2018 chlorine gas attack on a residential part of rebel-held Idlib province. 

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded that a military helicopter under the control of Syria’s elite Tiger Forces in February 2018 dropped at least one cylinder, dispersing the toxic gas over the Saraqib neighborhood of al-Talil.

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