Syria claims terror groups used chlorine as weapon
Syria's vice foreign minister denied Monday that his government ever used chemical weapons or chlorine during the country's brutal civil war and warned that terror groups are using such weapons.
Faysal Mekdad was speaking at a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as the group comes close to fully eliminating Damascus' deadly stockpile of nerve agents and poison gas -- helping international efforts to prevent terrorists using such weapons.
Mekdad said that terror groups "have used chlorine gas in several of the regions of Syria and Iraq."
