Suspicion grows over Syria chemical weapons

  • 11 years ago
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The US has said that Syria has probably used chemical weapons against rebel forces on a "small scale," but emphasised that intelligence services were still not 100 percent sure.

US spy agencies have investigated reports from Syrian opposition groups that President Bashar al-Assad's forces have used sarin gas on at least two occasions during the two-year-old conflict.

Al Jazeera's Peter Sharp reports.