Syria chemical attack: Inspectors allowed into Douma

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United Nations Security Council-mandated inspectors have probed previous attacks and decided President Assad's regime was responsible four times, MPs were told.

The delegation from the OPCW entered Douma alongside the Syrian health minister, a source close to the government told the German Press Agency.

On Saturday, the United States, along with Britain and France, launched more than 100 missiles at three suspected chemical weapons facilities in Homs, Syria.

Washington, along with London and Paris, launched the airstrikes in the wee hours of Syria's Saturday morning in response for an April 7 attack on the rebel stronghold of Douma that killed about 75 people, including children, and left another 500 in need of treatment for symptoms consistent with chemical weapons exposure.

Members of the Syrian police hold their weapons as they sit on a back of a truck in Douma, April 16, 2018.

"If President Trump had ordered the strike only to show that the U.S. responded to [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's use of chemical weapons, then that goal has been achieved", an Israeli defense official told Israel's YNet News on Tuesday.

The Russian military says that it has found rebel chemical weapons stockpiles in the Syrian town hit by a suspected chemical attack.

"As of today, Russian Federation and Syria still refuse to give inspectors access to the site of the attack", the foreign ministry said in a statement.

He called on parliament to "assert" its authority and said May had "tossed aside" the emerging convention of parliamentary votes for military action, set by the 2003 Iraq War vote, because it was "inconvenient".

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But the President's seeming shift raised questions about what exactly the USA will do in future, particularly about any gas attacks that might use chlorine, a common household chemical that has been deployed repeatedly in Syria, officials say.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the United States, Great Britain and France have violated worldwide law and hurt peace process in Syria by launching airstrikes at targets in Damascus.

But on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron adopted a more nuanced view of the attack.

"With the political and diplomatic actions that we're taking [against Syria] now, we wanted their friends, Iran and Russian Federation, to know that we meant business and that they were going to be feeling the pain from this as well", Haley said at the time.

But Mrs May stressed: "We have not done this because President Trump asked us to, we have done it because we believed it was the right thing to do, and we are not alone". "Three countries have intervened, and let me be quite frank: this is for the honor of the global community".

The missiles targeted Shayrat air base, it said - but did not say who fired the missiles.

It didn't say who carried out the early Tuesday airstrikes.

Assad has benefited from Russian air power since 2015 to regain large swathes of Syria, putting him in his strongest position since the early months of the seven-year-old war. Israel did not confirm or deny it.

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