“The use of chemical weapons is absolutely inadmissible,” Mr. Peskov said, adding<br />that the Syrian Army must act to “prevent any chemical agents that can be used as weapons from falling into the terrorists’ hands.”<br />Later on Thursday, however, Mr. Peskov said that the Russian government supported a full investigation into the attack and<br />that the Kremlin’s support for Mr. Assad’s government was “not unconditional.”<br />The Russian-Syrian posture came under immediate attack from Western leaders, including President<br />Trump, who had urged his predecessor, Mr. Obama, in 2013 not to intervene in Syria.<br />Banned Nerve Agent Sarin Used in Syria Chemical Attack, Turkey Says -<br />By PATRICK KINGSLEY and ANNE BARNARDAPRIL 6, 2017<br />ISTANBUL — The poison used in the deadly chemical bomb attack in a rebel-held part of northern Syria this<br />week was the banned nerve agent sarin, the Turkish Health Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.<br />“According to the results of preliminary tests,” the statement said, “patients were exposed to chemical material (Sarin).”<br />Western countries have accused the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad of carrying out the chemical attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib Province, which left scores dead<br />and hundreds sickened in one of the worst atrocities so far in the six-year-old Syria war.
