A UN investigation said government forces and pro-Assad militias carried out that attack, which killed 108 people, including 49 children. GHOUTA SARIN GAS ATTACKOn Aug. 21, 2013, exactly one year and one day after then President Barack Obama issued his "red line" warning against chemical weapons use and transfers, a horrific sarin nerve gas attack killed hundreds of people in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus. NAPALM-LIKE WEAPONS ATTACKSFive days after the gas attack on Ghouta, government aircraft bombed a school in the town of Orem al-Kubra, near Aleppo, with a napalm-like weapon, activists reported. TARGETING THE MEDICAL SECTORInternational medical charities say Assad's forces target hospitals, clinics and ambulances in opposition-held areas. According to Physicians for Human Rights, government and allied Russian forces have killed 727 medical workers in the course of the conflict.

Source: Bangkok Post April 10, 2017 20:48 UTC