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OPCW charges Assad regime with 2018 chlorine attack on Douma

OPCW said its investigators had "considered a range of possible scenarios" and concluded that "the Syrian Arab Air Forces are the perpetrators of this attack." "The use of chemical weapons in Douma - and anywhere - is unacceptable and a breach of international law," OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias said in a statement.

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Damascus denies the use of chemical weapons and insists it has handed over its stockpiles under a 2013 agreement, prompted by a suspected sarin gas attack that killed 1,400 in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.