The US-led coalition’s airpower targeted headquarters and chemical weapons depot belonging the ISIS terrorist group in a village near the city of Deir Ezzor yesterday evening, the Syrian Defense Ministry has said in a statement appeared at its website.
According to the statement, a toxic cloud appeared as a result of the airstrike, inflicting major casualties (“hundreds deaths”) among civilians in the area.
The Syrian Defense Ministry said that the incident confirmed the ability of various terrorist groups to obtain, to transport, to keep and to use chemical weapons.
The Syrian military emphasized that it does not possess any kind of chemical weapons and does not use them and warned that terrorists could use chemical weapons again in order to blame government forces.
