Syrian regime dropped sarin on rebel-held town in April, UN confirms Read more

“Israeli warplanes at 2.42am fired a number of missiles from Lebanese air space, targeting one of our military positions near Masyaf, which led to material damage and the deaths of two members of the site,” the army said in a statement. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, reported that the attack was on a facility of the Scientific Studies and Research Centre, an agency the United States describes as Syria's chemical weapons manufacturer — officials and witnesses on the ground also made the same claims. The attack came the morning after UN investigators concluded that the Syrian Government was directly responsible for a sarin poison gas attack in April, killing more than 80 civilians, as well dozens of other chemical attacks. There was no independent confirmation that this was the target but the United Nations has said in the past that the Syrian government has carried out chemical weapons attacks, which Damascus denies.
It is suspected that Israeli jets bomb a military research facility near the city of Masyaf, Hama Governorate, killing at least two Syrian Army soldiers. The facility was rumoured to contain chemical weapons.