Syrian Government Bombing Chlorine Barrel Bombs Over Aleppo

The group said more than 200 bombs were dropped on Aleppo in 24 hours.

The inquiry also found that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has used sulphur mustard gas. The UN said they were investigating this allegation.

Syria’s army has denied claims that its forces carried out a chemical attack on a militant-held area in Aleppo recently. But there is little sign that any party is poised for victory or can restore stability, and foreign powers are becoming more involved.

On Thursday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed by phone potential cooperation to facilitate aid deliveries. Assad has allied with other Sunnis, Kurds and Christians. The U.S. supports rebels fighting to overthrow the regime and Russian Federation has backed the Assad regime.

An inquiry by the United Nations last month found the Syrian government had used chlorine on at least two occasions.

Children are among the victims seen in videos in the aftermath of the alleged chlorine bombing of the Aleppo neighborhood in the videos and in photos, they are shown needing to use oxygen masks in order to breathe.

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 Syrian government has denied previous accusations that it used chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war. Under threat of US retaliation for the sarin attacks, the government agreed to eliminate its previously secret chemical weapons program. The Syrian regime, which has been engaged in a more than five-year-long civil war against a coalition of rebel groups, has consistently denied that it uses chemical weapons of any sort, including chlorine, which are prohibited under global treaties. Two suspected chlorine attacks has taken place last month in Aleppo also.

He traced this prevalence back to the use of chemical weapons in a massive, deadly attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in 2013, which opposition activists blamed on the Syrian regime. The government campaign to retake Ramousah and its surroundings, backed by intense aerial bombardment, also included a push on parts of the countryside to its immediate southwest, where the army and its allies took a strategic hilltop last week.

The monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in the United Kingdom, said medical sources had reported 70 cases of suffocation.