“Activists and doctors say the chlorine was dropped in an airstrike on a rebel-held part of Aleppo, affecting about 100 people”, NPR’s Alice Fordham reports on Morning Edition.
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However, a rebel source said insurgents still held part of Ramousah and that though the army was mobilising forces, the Jaish al-Fatah coalition of Islamist groups was still present at the southern Aleppo front. “Wherever the regime is driven out of an area, it ends up destroying it”, he said in a text message to The Associated Press.
“The barrel bombs are basically liquid cylinders of chlorine that they throw out a helicopter”, de Bretton-Gordon said.
Medical staff members described seeing people with symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing, sneezing, irritation of the eyes, nausea and in some cases respiratory failure.
The Syrian government dropped a bomb containing chlorine on a besieged neighbourhood in the city of Aleppo, heightening fears among people who are cut off from the outside world and unable to escape, according to residents and hospitals in the area.
The main Syrian opposition group, the Higher Negotiation Committee (HNC) met with global foreign leaders in London today to try and launch a blueprint for peace.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the prisoners released on Wednesday had been held in the central Hama prison on charges linked to opposition activities.
That means having a military council made up of both pro-government and opposition figures, and no wholesale purges, with punishment only for those directly responsible for crimes.
Hijab concedes there are formidable obstacles hindering implementation of the plan.
While the Syrian government denied having been responsible for the Ghouta attack, it agreed to have its chemical stockpiles removed to eliminate any pretext for a possible U.S. invasion.
The U.S. and Russian Federation are locked in protracted negotiations over a cease-fire in the city, after a previous truce deal collapsed in Aleppo in April.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday strongly condemned Syrian regime attacks which killed a three-year-old child and injured nearly 100 other civilians in Aleppo’s Sukkeri district.
Turkey sent tanks into Syria last month to support rebel forces against the Islamic State group in the town of Jarablus.
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been backed by Russian airpower. “The fact the worldwide community did nothing has encouraged him and encouraged Islamic State to do the same”. It reported no deaths.
They included 10 civilians, according to the monitor, as well as four IS fighters and four people that had yet to be identified.
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Hamza al-Khatib, who heads an Aleppo medical center, said Afifa had been in intensive care following the suspected chlorine attack.
