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| A team of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has arrived in the Syrian town of Douma, to investigate an alleged attack from two weeks ago, Syrian state media reported. | |
| The team arrived in Syria earlier this week, but its deployment on the ground in the Damascus suburb was slowed down by "security concerns." Douma was freed by Syrian government forces last week, after a Russia-brokered agreement with Jaysh al-Islam militants occupying the town resulted in their mass evacuation to Syria's north. Civilians who had been forced to endure life under the militants left the town through humanitarian corridors in their thousands. | The team arrived in Syria earlier this week, but its deployment on the ground in the Damascus suburb was slowed down by "security concerns." Douma was freed by Syrian government forces last week, after a Russia-brokered agreement with Jaysh al-Islam militants occupying the town resulted in their mass evacuation to Syria's north. Civilians who had been forced to endure life under the militants left the town through humanitarian corridors in their thousands. |
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| The alleged chemical weapons attack on April 7 was used by the US, Britain and France to justify an attack last weekend against targets which they called essential for Syria's chemical weapons program. Damascus insists that it has destroyed all chemical weapons stockpiles after joining the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2015, the treaty that created the OPCW as its watchdog. Russia said the incident was staged and accused Britain of having a hand in fabricating a pretext for the tri-party attack against Syria. | |
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