Syria denies the use of chemical weapons. It insists it transferred its arms stockpiles under a 2013 agreement with the US and Russia following a suspected gas attack that left 1,400 dead in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.
However, according to an investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Syrian Air Force is responsible for three attacks involving chlorine gas and the nerve gas sarin on the site of Lataminah in 2017. The air force is also believed to be behind a 2018 chlorine gas attack on the site. Saraqib sit.
The civil war in Syria has claimed the lives of nearly half a million people since March 2011.