Syria 'may have used poison gas'
The Syrian regime is likely to have used chemical weapons on a “small scale”, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.
The White House has told members of Congress that, within the last day, US intelligence concluded with “some degree of varying confidence” that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons – specifically sarin gas.
Mr Hagel reporters in Abu Dhabi: “It violates every convention of warfare”.
US Secretary of State John Kerry later said that the Syrian regime launched two chemical attacks.
President Barack Obama has said the use of chemical weapons would be a “game-changer” in the US position on intervening in the two-year-old Syrian civil war.
