FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is pictured in The Hague, NetherlandsAMSTERDAM - The global chemical weapons watchdog has "reasonable grounds to believe" that Syria's air force dropped a chlorine bomb on a residential neighbourhood in the rebel-controlled Idlib region in February 2018, a report released on Monday said.
However, on the night of Feb. 4, a dozen people were treated for symptoms consistent with chemical poisoning, including nausea, eye irritation, shortness of breath, coughing and wheezing, it said. In April 2020, the OPCW's Investigation and Identification Team concluded that Syrian warplanes and a helicopter had dropped bombs containing chlorine and sarin nerve gas on a village in Syria's Hama region in March 2017.The latest report by the IIT also implicated Syrian government forces. It concluded that "there were reasonable grounds to believe" a chlorine cylinder was dropped from a helicopter.
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