On the highway leading to Khan Sheikhoun, in Syria's Idlib province, Dec. 18, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'OLJ)
It was designed to kill in silence, in the most covert way possible. Colorless, it caught the residents of Khan Sheikhoun off guard in the early morning hours. Some even died in their beds. On April 4, 2017, at 6:45 am, Syrian aircraft dropped four rockets on a neighborhood in this city in Idlib province, held by forces opposed to the Assad regime. Three of the missile homes struck, but it was the first one — seemingly harmless at first, leaving only a small crater in the middle of an empty street — that caused the most casualties. Read more In Syria, the rescue workers who have now become body collectors Seven years later, there are no traces of the chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun, except in the memories of the residents. The crater was covered with asphalt and the area remained blocked for a long time, considered a 'safe...
It was designed to kill in silence, in the most covert way possible. Colorless, it caught the residents of Khan Sheikhoun off guard in the early morning hours. Some even died in their beds. On April 4, 2017, at 6:45 am, Syrian aircraft dropped four rockets on a neighborhood in this city in Idlib province, held by forces opposed to the Assad regime. Three of the missile homes struck, but it was the first one — seemingly harmless at first, leaving only a small crater in the middle of an empty street — that caused the most casualties. Read more In Syria, the rescue workers who have now become body collectors Seven years later, there are no traces of the chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun, except in the memories of the residents. The crater was covered with asphalt and the area remained blocked for a long time, considered a...