The OPCW, based in The Hague, the Netherlands, published its report on February 22 after its Investigation and Identification Team concluded a fourth report into the attack in Marea, Aleppo Province.
There are “reasonable grounds” to believe that units of Daesh were the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attack on 1 September 2015 in Marea, Syria, the OPCW said on its official website, adding that the comprehensive investigation was conducted from January 2023 to February 2024.
The investigation found that Daesh terrorists “deployed sulfur mustard during sustained attacks aimed at capturing the town of Marea”, and that “the chemical payload was deployed by artillery from areas under ISIL control”, another acronym for the terrorist group.
The probe also said that “eleven named individuals who came into contact with the liquid substance experienced symptoms consistent with exposure to sulfur mustard".
The OPCW, which is the global chemical weapons watchdog, has conducted fact-finding missions in Syria in the past years amid the Damascus government’s fight against terrorist groups which Syria says were backed by certain Western states, including the United States and France.
Those missions began after the West accused Syria of chemical weapons attacks on its people, an allegation vehemently rejected by the Arab country.
Syria has time and again said that it has never used such weapons on the Syrian people and the Western allegations are just excuses to exert pressure on the country.
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