UN urged to take action on Syria’s chemical attacks: Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English

Published on Aug 30, 2016

The UN Security Council has held a meeting to discuss a report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons found that both the Syrian government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group used toxic gases in 2014 and 2015.

Human Rights Watch, the advocacy group, has urged the UN to impose sanctions on the Syrian government.

Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna reports from the UN headquarters in New York.