...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented...on a rebel-held town in 2018, dismissing the charge as "fabricated."
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Monday that an investigation found the Syrian air force used the chemical weapon chlorine on Saraqib on February 4, 2018.
In a statement carried by state news agency SANA, Syria’s foreign ministry condemns the report "in the strongest terms." It says Damascus "categorically denies its use of poison gas in the town of Saraqib or any other Syrian town or village."
The report by "the so-called ’identification and investigation team’ on the alleged incident in Saraqib... contains unfounded and fabricated conclusions," it says.