AMSTERDAM: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Thursday Accused militant group Daesh in Iraq and the Levant for carrying out chemical weapons attack in Marea, Syria, on September 1, 2015.
The organization added that there were reasonable grounds to believe that on 1 September 2015, during attacks to capture the town of Marea, units of Daesh deployed sulfur mustard projectiles.
The Investigation and Identification Team of OPCW discovered that 11 individuals who had contacted with the dangerous substance found in the projectiles at the site of the attack, had experienced similar symptoms of exposure to sulfur mustard.
The team had found that the chemical was deployed by the forces from areas under Daesh control.
It added that no other entity had means, motives, and abilities to deploy sulfur mustard as part of an attack in Marea in 2015.
Earlier OPCW found that the Syrian government had used the nerve agent sarin in an April 2017 attack, and dropped gas cylinders on residential buildings in Douma city in 2018, while using chlorine as a weapon.
Syria rejects using chemical weapons and has accused Daesh militants for mustard gas use.
The Investigation and Identification Team was established by member countries at the Hague-based OPCW in November 2018 to identify those behind of chemical attacks in Syria after Russia vetoed the joint United Nations-OPCW mission.
