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    Chemical Weapons Team Is On Its Way To Syria, Watchdog Group Says

    A team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons plans to begin investigating the attack in Douma by Saturday. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called the attack "inexcusable."
    by Bill Chappell Apr 12, 2018 2 minutes
    A bus carries rebels and their families who have fled Douma, Syria, the site of an alleged chemical attack over the weekend that killed dozens.

    Updated at 12:27 p.m. ET

    A fact-finding team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is on its way to Syria and will begin working there by Saturday, spokesperson Johan de Wittlaan said Thursday.

    The team will investigate the recent killing of dozens of civilians in Douma in over the weekend, in which Syrians were found to have died from suffocation in the city just outside Damascus.

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