U.N. Investigative Panel Says Syria Used Sarin on Village<br />The investigative panel, created two years ago by the United Nations Security Council to determine who has been using chemical weapons in Syria, is a collaboration of the United Nations<br />and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague-based group that polices the global ban on such munitions.<br />Its report, which was shared with Security Council members and seen by The New York Times, said investigators were "confident<br />that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Shekhoun on 4 April 2017." The results were likely to be assailed by Russia, the Syrian government’s most important ally.<br />26, 2017<br />The Syrian Air Force was responsible for a lethal sarin chemical attack on a northern<br />rebel-held village on April 4, a United Nations investigative panel said Thursday.<br />The report represented the first time that a politically neutral investigation had concluded<br />which side in the Syrian civil war had carried out the attack on the village, Khan Shekhoun.
