(Telegraph-UK) Ruth Sherlock - Scientific analysis of samples from multiple gas attacks in Syria shows the Assad regime is still launching chemical weapons attacks on children. Soil samples from the scene of three recent attacks were collected by trained individuals. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a British chemical weapons expert involved in the testing, said: "We have unequivocally proved that the regime has used chlorine and ammonia against its own civilians in the last two to three weeks." The use in war of "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases" - which can be produced by chlorine and ammonia - is banned by the Geneva Protocol, which Syria signed. The attacks were conducted by helicopter and could only have been carried out by the Syrian regime. In the last two weeks alone there have been eight separate chemical attacks on rebel-held towns and villages in Idlib province.
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