Syria says attested al-Assad-era general over chemical attack

Syria’s interior ministry on Friday announced the arrest of a general from ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s era, accusing him of involvement in a 2013 chemical attack on a suburb of the capital, Damascus.In August 2013, the army under alAssad’s rule was accused of using chemical weapons to target areas then under opposition control, killing more than 1,400 men, women and children, according to US intelligence and rights groups.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.With Syria at the height of its civil war, the al-Assad government denied responsibility, but agreed to hand over its chemical arsenal in order to avert US strikes.Al-Assad went on to remain in power for more than a decade, only to be ousted in 2024.On Friday, the ministry said it arrested “Khardal Ahmed Dayoub, a former brigadier general in the forces of the ousted regime and former head of the Air Force Intelligence branch in Daraa, for his direct involvement in systematic

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