{"id":23334,"date":"2018-11-26T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23334"},"modified":"2018-11-26T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:23:29","slug":"suspected-us-drone-strike-kills-6-al-qaeda-fighters-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23334","title":{"rendered":"Suspected US drone strike kills 6 Al-Qaeda fighters in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nTHE HAGUE: The world\u2019s chemical watchdog said Monday it was reviewing security ahead of a possible probe into an alleged chemical attack in Syria\u2019s regime-held city of Aleppo over the weekend.<br \/>Damascus formally requested the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague investigate the alleged attack on Saturday which Syrian officials and rights groups said left scores of people struggling to breathe.<br \/>Both the Syrian regime and its ally Russia have blamed \u201cterrorist groups\u201d \u2014 a term which Damascus uses to mean both rebels and militants.<br \/>The alleged attack also prompted Russia to launch retaliatory air strikes into a planned buffer zone near the last major opposition stronghold of Idlib.<br \/>\u201cThe OPCW Secretariat has been monitoring the situation,\u201d said director-general Fernando Arias.<br \/>It has contacted the UN\u2019s security department \u201cin order to assess the security situation on the ground for a possible deployment of the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) to Syria,\u201d the OPCW director-general said.<br \/>The body\u2019s Secretariat implements the OPCW\u2019s verification measures while the FFM, set up in 2014, investigates all allegations of chemical weapons use in war-torn Syria.<br \/>\u201cThe OPCW\u2019s experts will continue to work independently to verify all allegations of the use of chemicals as weapons in Syria,\u201d Arias told delegates at a nine-day conference to review the world body\u2019s strategy for the next five years.<br \/>Syria again Monday blamed \u201carmed terrorist groups\u201d for launching a toxic gas attack which it said left around 100 Syrians hospitalized with breathing difficulties.<br \/>\u201cIt is believed that the agent used was chlorine,\u201d said Bassam Al-Sabbagh, Syria\u2019s permanent representative to the OPCW.<br \/>\u201cWe have discussed the potential of launching an investigation into this attack to find out what exactly happened in the city of Aleppo,\u201d he told the delegates.<br \/>Russia said the shelling came from an area of the buffer zone controlled by the jihadist-dominated Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) alliance.<br \/>A rebel coalition has denied any involvement, but neither the HTS, nor the Al-Qaeda-linked Hurras Al-Deen group present in the area have commented on Saturday\u2019s alleged attack.<br \/>It was the latest accusation of a chemical attack in Syria\u2019s grinding seven-year civil war, which 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