Damascus skies were alight as the US and allies launched attacks targeting several sites in the capital
An advance security team from the United Nations withdrew from Douma after coming under small arms fire on Tuesday at one of the sites destined for inspection.
Global chemical weapons inspectors were expected to visit the site on Wednesday, but the visit has now been postponed and it is unknown when it will take place.
There was no comment from the OPCW or the U.N.'s security department.
Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, told ambassadors in The Hague that it was unclear when the fact-finding mission will be able to deploy to Douma, Wilson added.
Assad continues to deny using chemical weapons, telling visiting Russian politicians that Western air strikes against his country were accompanied by a campaign of "lies" and misinformation at the UN.
The US-led coalition said Barzah was at the heart of the Syrian chemical weapons programme, while the other sites were being used to store weapons.
The inspectors arrived Saturday in Syria, the same day the United States, Britain and France launched a barrage of missiles targeting three chemical weapons facilities in Syria.
At the scene of that contested April 7 attack, a man who said he lives next to a building struck by one of the alleged chemical-laden canisters brought Doane and his team into the basement, where he described what said had been a "horrible smell".
Global inspectors were still waiting to visit the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria on Wednesday, as the USA accused the Syrian government and its ally Russian Federation of trying to cover up the evidence.
Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told the Security Council on Tuesday that the OPCW experts would begin their investigation once they received the all-clear from the UN security team.
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On Tuesday, there had been conflicting reports about whether the OPCW experts had arrived in Douma.
But delays and security fears have cast uncertainty over the current fact-finding mission (FFM).
Syrian state media say rebels in a town northeast of Damascus are handing over their weapons as part of an agreement reached with the Syrian government.
He was referring to the rebel fighters who controlled Douma until the Syrian army took it back about a week ago.
The U.N. -mandated Independent International Commission on Syria has documented more than 30 chemical attacks in Syria between 2013 and the end of 2017 - and says at least 25 of them were carried out by the Syrian military.
Jerry Smith, a former chemical weapons inspector in Syria and founder of the RameHead Consulting International security firm, warned that a substance like chlorine could "disappear in a couple of hours".
The Syrian "White Helmets" rescue organization, which operates largely in rebel-held areas, said on Wednesday that it had pinpointed for global inspectors the places where the victims of the chemical attack are buried, its head Raed Saleh said on Wednesday.
"Clearly the Assad regime did not get the message a year ago", Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said last week.
There was no comment from the OPCW or the United Nations on Wednesday.
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