A Syrian girl holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant after a chemical attack on Douma, in Syria, in 2018. (Credit: Hasan Mohamed/AFP)
Investigators believe the Syrian regime was behind a 2018 chlorine attack on the town of Douma that killed 43 people, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Friday in a long-awaited report.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Forces were the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attack on 7 April 2018 in Douma," the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement.
Investigators believe the Syrian regime was behind a 2018 chlorine attack on the town of Douma that killed 43 people, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Friday in a long-awaited report.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Forces were the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attack on 7 April 2018 in Douma," the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement.
7 p.m. recap: 1 person killed near border with Lebanon; 200 kilos of explosives carried by mules; Riyadh shuts its airspace