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Assad regime to blame for April sarin attack that killed dozens of civilians: U.N.

In this photo provided by the United Nations, the U.N. Security Council meets on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, at U.N. headquarters Thursday. Experts from the U.N. and the chemical weapons watchdog are blaming the Syrian government for an attack in April using the nerve gas sarin that killed over 90 people. | KIM HAUGHTON / THE UNITED NATIONS / VIA AP

Reuters

Oct 27, 2017

UNITED NATIONS –

The Syrian government of Bashar Assad is to blame for a chemical attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun that killed dozens of people last April, according to a report sent to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday.

"The Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017," the report from the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) said.

The attack prompted a U.S. missile strike against a Syrian airbase that Washington said was used to launch the strike.

Assad regime to blame for April sarin attack that killed dozens of civilians: U.N.

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