A woman lies on a stretcher inside a hospital after what the Syrian state media said was a suspected toxic gas attack in Aleppo, Syria November 24, 2018.
The global chemical weapons agency will investigate an alleged gas attack in Syria's Aleppo that reportedly wounded 100 people on Saturday, a source said on Monday.
The agency will first consider whether the allegations are credible, weigh security issues and then deploy a fact-finding team to the site if possible, a source said.
A health official in Aleppo said victims suffered breathing difficulties, eye inflammation and other symptoms suggesting the use of chlorine gas.
The U.S. is trying to head off a possible Turkish operation east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria by placing observation posts in the area, said an independent Turkish parliamentarian on Monday."The main aim of the [U.S.] move is to block Turkey's possible operation in the area," Öztürk Yılmaz, a former diplomat, told reporters in parliament on Monday.He added that the U.S. also aims to "encircle Iran and Turkey and control Baghdad and Damascus."Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said that the U.S. was placing observation posts along the Turkish border in northern Syria.'US trying to block Turkey moving east of Euphrates'In 2014, while serving as Turkey’s consul in Mosul, Iraq, Daesh terrorists took Yılmaz and 49 other consulate staffers hostage for 101 days. He was freed through the efforts of the Turkish Intelligence Organization.A possible mission east of the Euphrates, which Turkey’s leadership has been suggesting for months, would follow two successful cross-border Turkish operations into Syria, Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch, both meant to eradicate the presence of the terrorist YPG/PKK and Daesh near Turkey’s borders.Turkey has objected to the U.S. helping the terrorist YPG/PKK, in what the U.S. calls anti-Daesh efforts, telling Washington that fighting one terrorist group with another will come to nothing.Syrian opposition refutes chemical attack claims
'US trying to block Turkey moving east of Euphrates'