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Syria strikes rebel positions after poison gas attack
A nurse in Aleppo treating victims of the poison gas attack
SYRIAN war planes attacked rebel-held positions today in response to an apparent poison gas attack on Aleppo.
Air strikes and shelling of encampments south and west of Aleppo were condemned by Free Syrian Army (FSA) spokesman Musafa Seraji as undermining a ceasefire brokered by Russia, which supports the Syrian government, and Turkey, which has provided assistance to jihadist rebels.
The FSA in question is not the group founded by army defectors early in the Syrian war but a Turkish puppet organisation of the same name founded last year to co-ordinate attacks on Kurdish fighters. It stands accused of war crimes after one of its units, the Sultan Murad division, posted videos of Kurdish people’s protection unit (YPG) fighters being tortured.
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