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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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The watchdog said that "at least one Mi-8/17 helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force, departing from Dumayr airbase and operating under the control of the Tiger Forces, dropped two yellow cylinders" on April 7, 2018. The cylinders hit two residential buildings in central Douma, it said.