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"Asad administration uses chemical weapons in Syria"

2019-09-27T01:01:43.890Z


US Secretary of State Pompeo announced at a press conference on the 26th in Syria, where the civil war continued, that the Assad government used chemical weapons chlorine gas in May this year. “The Assad administration is responsible for countless atrocities, including war crimes and crimes against human rights,” non…


US Secretary of State Pompeo announced at a press conference on the 26th in Syria, where the civil war continued, that the Assad government used chemical weapons chlorine gas in May this year. “The Assad administration is responsible for countless atrocities, including war crimes and crimes against human rights,” he accused.

According to Mr. Pompeo, the Assad administration decided on May 19 that it had used chlorine gas in the midst of increasing the offensive around the northwestern Idlib province, which was the last large-scale institution of dissidents. The US Department of State announced a statement on the 21st of the same month that the Assad administration was suspected of using chemical weapons containing chlorine gas.

The Trump administration attacked Syria in April 2017 and April 2018 because of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad administration. Pompeo did not make any specific mention of countermeasures this time. Meanwhile, the US Treasury Department announced on February 26 that it has imposed economic sanctions on shipping companies in Russia for transporting aviation fuel to the Russian army that supports the Assad administration. (New York = Watanabe Hill)

Source: asahi

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