The Reality-Discovering Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded on Monday that there have been no cheap grounds to find out that poisonous chemical compounds have been utilized by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in October 2017 at Al-Yarmouk within the Syrian Arab Republic.
In its report, OPCW discovered that there was no indication that chemical compounds have been used as a weapon by ISIL. Nonetheless, the group famous proof gathering has turn out to be more and more complicated, with a number of potential witnesses having died through the battle or are nonetheless lacking. Likewise, people who initially agreed to supply testimony in the end declined to supply their account of the occasions to the OPCW.
This follows a finding in February 2024 that ISIL was accountable for the 2015 chemical assault in Marea, Syria. These stories come because the OPWC parses by means of the allegations of chemical weapon utilization by all events of the Syrian Civil Warfare, which started in 2011.
These conflicting stories add complexity to worldwide actions in opposition to events to the Syrian Civil Warfare. Using chemical weapons in Syria turned a trigger celebre, with the US launching missile strikes in 2017 and 2018, allegedly in retaliation to the Syrian authorities’s use of chemical weapons. In November 2023, Al Jazeera reported that France had issued arrest warrants in opposition to Assad and one other authorities official for the alleged use of chemical weapons through the Civil Warfare. The Syrian regime has constantly denied claims that it had used chemical weapons, citing a 2013-2014 joint OPCW-UN mission that presupposed to have eliminated or destroyed all chemical weapons held by the Syrian authorities and has blamed all chemical assaults on opposing teams.
