Watchdog says has evidence of chlorine attacks in Syria

A boy stands amid rubble of damaged buildings along a street in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus September 10, 2014. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog have found "compelling evidence" that chlorine gas was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in northern Syria this year, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said there had been a "spate of new allegations" of chlorine attacks in August, after a reduction in reported attacks since May.