BEIRUT (AFP) – At least 150 Syrian regime forces have been killed in Khan al-Assal, a town in Aleppo province at the centre of an alleged chemical weapons strike this year, monitors said Friday.

“There is every reason to believe that it was armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal,” Vitaly Churkin said. The experts visited Khan al-Assal, where Syria ...

Opposition forces say they seized the town of Khan al-Assal, the last bastion of Assad forces in the area. Syrian rebels claim they have captured the entire western area of Aleppo, a northern ...

On July 9 th 2013, Russia’s UN envoy, Vitaly Churkin, presented a dossier to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, directly implicating Syrian rebels in a Sarin attack on the town of Khan al-Assal ...

Navi Pillay said in a statement that a U.N team in the region is looking into reports about killings that followed the battle in Khan al-Assal in July. Pillay said the team has examined activists ...

Khan al-Assal was considered the last regime stronghold in the west of Aleppo province. The rebel victory comes after several defeats at the hands of Syrian armed forces. The town lies on a route ...

Assad's government invited a U.N. team to visit Damascus earlier this month after requesting that the world body investigate an alleged chemical attack in Khan al-Assal, a village in the north.

Their mission will be limited to investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in three areas, specifically an attack on March 19 in the Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal, which President Bashar ...

KHAN AL ASSAL, SYRIA — Syrian government forces are reported to be preparing for a major offensive on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo and its surroundings. In northern Syria ...

Both opposition forces and the Syrian government have alleged that chemical weapons were used in last Tuesday’s attack on the village of Khan al-Assal, bringing to the fore one of the most potentially ...

“There is every reason to believe that it was armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal,” Vitaly Churkin said. The experts visited Khan al-Assal, where Syria ...