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August21 2013: Around 1,429 people (according to US estimates), including many children, are killed in chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus, apparently involving sarin gas. Opposition groups blame the Assad regime. In the week that follows, as more details emerge, John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, condemns the attacks as a “moral obscenity” and President Obama threatens limited military strikes. David Cameron pledges British support, subject to parliamentary approval.
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With Syria suspected to be using chemical weapons, the US and international effort to respond begs the question: Why intervene now, and not earlier in the war?
Scores of men, women and children were killed outside Damascus in an attack marked by the telltale signs of chemical weapons.
Evidence clearly suggests that Syria`s president has deployed chemical weapons. The latest poison gas attack should set aside once and for all any reservations about military intervention. The credibility of Western countries is on the line.
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A summary of what we know about the chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital on 21 August, which killed hundreds of people.
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