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Syria To Allow Chemical Weapons Inspectors, After Barring Them Earlier This Week

April 21, 2018 11:50·
Syria To Allow Chemical Weapons Inspectors, After Barring Them Earlier This Week

Syria To Allow Chemical Weapons Inspectors, After Barring Them Earlier This Week

Russian Federation and Syria cited "pending security issues" as their reason for turning the inspectors away, said Ahmet Üzümcü, the director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

She said the United States had information that both chlorine and sarin nerve gas were used in the attack and was concerned that evidence was deteriorating the longer inspectors were kept from reaching the site.

Home to 400,000 residents, Eastern Ghouta has remained under a crippling regime siege for the last five years, which has prevented the delivery of badly needed humanitarian supplies.

The OPCW visit to Douma came hours after Syrian media reported airstrikes Tuesday on government military installations in the central Homs region and the suburbs of Damascus, but the military later said a false alarm had set off air defense systems.

The Syrian Central Media said six missiles targeted the Shayrat air base in Homs on Tuesday, adding that Syrian air defenses shot down a lot of them.

Russian Federation and Iran, both allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, have condemned the strikes and Moscow has suggested the attack on civilians was "staged".

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Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the strikes aimed to defend "the honour of the global community" in the face of Syria's suspected violation of the UN Chemical Weapons Convention.

Earlier this month, four Iranian military personnel were killed in an airstrike on Syria's T4 air base, also in Homs.

"These strikes don't necessarily resolve anything but I think they were important", he said. Russia, meanwhile, is mustering an army of internet trolls to shift blame for the chemical weapons attack. The Associated Press spoke to survivors and witnesses who described being hit by gas, fainting, and discovering their relatives had died, with foam bubbling around their mouths. Israel did not confirm or deny the allegations.

Several said a unusual smell started spreading and people screamed: "It's chlorine!"

Opposition activists, medical organisations and rescue workers say more than 40 people were killed when aircraft dropped barrel bombs filled with toxic chemicals on the town while it was still held by rebel forces. After all, it was Russian Federation that supported the Syrian government's request to the director general of the OPCW Technical Secretariat to send an OPCW team to Douma.

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