The Times- Feb. 26, 2018- Syrian regime forces have defied a UN ceasefire resolution by launching an alleged chemical attack and bombing rebel positions in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta.
Assad’s forces and militias backed by Iran clashed with rebels in three areas around the suburb and activists said that tens of people had died under repeated bombardment yesterday. They later claimed that shells containing chlorine had injured at least 16 people in the town of al-Shifonieh, one of them a child who later died.
Yaqub, a doctor who treated those affected, told the AFP press agency that he suspected “chemical weapons, probably a chlorine gas attack”. He said: “Most of the patients have chlorine odour from their clothes and their skin.
