A new chemical weapons investigation team begins work on identifying the culprits behind alleged gas attacks in Syria - Reuters
File photo shows a UN chemical weapons expert holding a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus, August 29, 2013.
Last June, the Investigation and Identification Team was established by the OPCW's member states during a special session, a move that has brought deeper political division to the UN-back agency. Now it has identified the locations of its first investigations to be conducted in the coming three years.
US President Donald Trump blamed the attack on Assad forces and launched missile strikes on Syrian regime targets a week later with the backing of France and Britain. As part of a deal brokered with Moscow, Damascus vowed to completely destroy its chemical weapons capabilities, but attacks with banned munitions have been widespread and systematic during the civil war, which began in 2011.
The JIM concluded in a series of reports since then that the Assad's army used both nerve agent sarin and chlorine as weapons, while Daesh militants used sulphur mustard gas on the battlefield.
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