The US State Department sends a warning to Damascus: There are indications that the Syrian dictator Assad again used chemical weapons. If the reports were confirmed, they would react immediately.
According to the information provided by the US State Department, evidence of a possible use of chemical weapons by the Syrian leadership a few days ago. There are signs that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces used chemical weapons in an attack last Sunday in the northwest of the country.
„We still gather information about this incident, but we reiterate our warning that if the Assad regime uses chemical weapons, the United States and its allies will respond swiftly and appropriately,“ US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said.
Repeated reports of chemical weapons missions
US President Donald Trump and his government have threatened Assad several times in the past with severe consequences for the use of chemical weapons. The US State Department accused the Syrian leadership and its ally Russia of falsely accusing other groups of using chemical weapons.
In Syria, there are repeated reports of alleged poison gas attacks, which often kill civilians. At the beginning of last year, a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights listed 34 such attacks in the Syria war, which were clearly provable. The UN institution also blamed the Assad government for most of the attacks. Assad’s leadership regularly rejects such allegations.
