Toxic gas report delayed

council members want the body to act after receiving the next report.

As the inquiry worked to complete its report, it had identified two Syrian Air Force helicopter squadrons and two other military units it held responsible for chlorine gas attacks, a Western diplomat said.

Some diplomats worry that the council could respond weakly or that the issue could be sidelined as the US and Russia try to salvage a truce deal in Syria.

Syria agreed to destroy its chemical weapons in 2013 under a deal brokered by Moscow and Washington. Ban said that if the world did not pursue the perpetrators of crimes in Syria, it “would be a grave abdication of duty”. – Reuters