Chlorine used in attack on Syria's Douma in 2018: watchdog

Chlorine was used in an attack on the Syrian town of Douma in April 2018, although there was no evidence of nerve agent, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said Friday in a final report on the incident.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said there were "reasonable grounds that the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon has taken place on 7 April 2018.

"This toxic chemical contained reactive chlorine."