The United States has concluded that the Assad regime carried out a chlorine attack on Syria in May, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced.
"This attack was part of the Assad regime's ongoing violent campaign in Idlib, which has killed more than 1,000 innocent Syrians and displaced hundreds of thousands more," Pompeo said at a news conference in New York."It is also the latest instance in a long pattern of Assad's chemical weapons attacks that have killed or wounded thousands of Syrians.
"The Trump administration ordered retaliatory strikes against Syrian regime targets in 2017 and 2018 after reports of chemical weapons attacks by Syrian President Bashar al Assad's forces.Read MoreOn Monday, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced the Syrian government and the Syrian Negotiations Commission had reached an agreement on"a credible, balanced and inclusive Constitutional Committee that will be facilitated by the United Nations in Geneva.
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