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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-condemns-syrian-chemical-weapons-probe/story?id=41632573
White House Condemns Syrian Use of Chemical Weapons
(ABC News) John Parkinson - The White House on Wednesday condemned Syrian President Assad's regime for using chemical weapons against Syrians, after the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed suspicion of chemical weapons use in Syria in 2014 and 2015. "It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people," National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Assad regime's use of chlorine against its own people." "The OPCW-UN report also confirmed that in August 2015, ISIL [Islamic State] used mustard gas against civilians in Syria," Price noted.