UN: no confirmation use poison gas in Duma

Employees of the United Nations in Syria can not confirm that chemical weapons were deployed last weekend in Duma, a devastated and surrounded suburb of Damascus.

Also relief workers from the refugee organization Unhcr and the emergency aid agency Ocha of the UN do not have any information about the use of chemical weapons. The UN may only sporadically enter the encircled enclave of Duma. There, extremist Islamic groups and Syrian aid workers who are fierce opponents of the Syrian President Assad's regime are in charge. They argued that the Syrian forces threw poison gas last Saturday.

Surrounded Duma is about to fall into the hands of Assad, partly because the main battle group, the Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), last weekend finally agreed with their Russia-controlled retreat to northern Syria. Russian media point out that reports of attacks with chemical weapons have been more often spread in the Syrian civil war in an attempt to provoke Western military actions against Assad.

The US Secretary of Defense James Mattis admitted in February that the intelligence services have no evidence that Assad's army, for example, has used nerve gas. UN chief António Guterres has called for an impartial investigation into the reports on Tuesday.

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