U.N. Investigative Panel Says Syria Used Sarin on Village
The investigative panel, created two years ago by the United Nations Security Council to determine who has been using chemical weapons in Syria, is a collaboration of the United Nations
and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague-based group that polices the global ban on such munitions.
Its report, which was shared with Security Council members and seen by The New York Times, said investigators were "confident
that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Shekhoun on 4 April 2017." The results were likely to be assailed by Russia, the Syrian government’s most important ally.
26, 2017
The Syrian Air Force was responsible for a lethal sarin chemical attack on a northern
rebel-held village on April 4, a United Nations investigative panel said Thursday.
The report represented the first time that a politically neutral investigation had concluded
which side in the Syrian civil war had carried out the attack on the village, Khan Shekhoun.
