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| Syria chemical weapons 'likely used' in five more cases | |
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| Chemical weapons were "probably used" at five out of seven sites in Syria, UN investigators say in their report. | |
| In two cases, the weapons targeted soldiers, and in a third, soldiers and civilians, the report says. | |
| The report has not determined whether the government or rebels had used the weapons. | |
| The inspectors had already confirmed the deadly nerve gas sarin was used in an attack near Damascus on 21 August which killed hundreds. | |
| The report said it had evidence that chemical weapons in Ghouta, Khan al-Assal, Jobar, Saraqueb and Ashrafieh Sahnaya. | |
| However, the inspectors said they could not corroborate their use in incidents in Bahariyeh and Sheik Maqsood. | |
| On Friday the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is due to brief the UN's General Assembly on the inspectors' findings in closed session. | |
| In the aftermath of the attack on the Ghouta region near Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad allowed international inspectors to begin destroying chemical weapons under the Syrian government's control on the basis of a US-Russian agreement. |