A UN investigation has established that the Syrian regime carried out at least two chemical attacks in Syria and that the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) used mustard gas as a weapon, AFP reported Wednesday (August 24th).
The panel was able to identify the perpetrators of three chemical attacks carried out in 2014 and 2015, but was unable to draw conclusions in the other six cases that it has been investigating.
The Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) found that the Syrian regime dropped chemical weapons on two Idlib villages: Talmenes on April 21, 2014, and Sarmin on March 16, 2015.
The panel found that ISIL "was the only entity with the ability, capability, motive and the means to use sulphur mustard" in an attack on Marea in northern Aleppo on August 21st, 2015.
The report said that in all three cases, it had "sufficient information to reach a conclusion on the actors involved".
