More distress in Syria’s course of conflictDoctors say that victims of a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Tuesday — which resulted in U.S. retaliatory strikes — show symptoms consistent with the use of a nerve agent such as sarin. If confirmed, the attack would be among the worst incidents of chemical weapons use in Syria’s civil war, which has killed over 320,000 people since it began in 2011. Picture shows a Syrian doctor treating a child following the suspected chemical attack, at a makeshift hospital in Khan Sheikhoun town, in the country’s northern Idlib province. Syrian opposition activists have described the attack as among the worst in the country’s civil war.Edlib Media Center/AP

Source: The Hindu April 09, 2017 00:33 UTC