Is ISIS Still Using Chemical Weapons in Syria?

By Published on September 10, 2015

The video is painfully difficult to watch. The pale, wet, listless bodies of young children are carried into a hospital as doctors frantically try to save lives. Men choke and vomit and cry out and a grandmother lies peacefully on a gurney. She is dead.

Five others died in the same attack on Sarmin, about 50 km (30 miles) southwest of Aleppo, in March this year – including three small children. None of them had a scar on their bodies.

For the children of Syria, it is not the high seas they must fear but death on dry land.

The footage was apparently taken in the aftermath of a chemical attack.

When it was shown to the UN Security Council it reportedly moved delegates to tears, and is just one of more than 60 incidents in which toxic agents are alleged to have been deployed.

Read the article “Is ISIS Still Using Chemical Weapons in Syria?” on bbc.com.

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