article_snippet: watchdog will investigate allegations chlorine gas has been used to carry out fatal attacks in Syrian villages.
article_snippet: It is understood that a probe will take place to examine reports that several chlorine 'barrel bombs' in the northwestern Idlib region of Syria have been used in attacks that killed six people and wounded dozens.
article_snippet: Activists have accused the Syrian regime of using chlorine - a toxic agent that can be considered a chemical weapon - on civilian areas in the past. '
article_snippet: We have been monitoring the recent reports suggesting that toxic chemicals may have been used as weapons in the Idlib province in Syria,' Uzumcu added.
article_snippet: A report by the chemical weapons watchdog in January concluded 'with a high degree of confidence' that chlorine gas had been used in attacks on three villages in Syria last year. 
article_snippet: Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013, . agreeing to allow foreign weapons inspectors into Syria . and averting U.S.-threatened air strikes after sarin attacks in .
article_snippet: Syria did not have to declare Syria stockpile of chlorine - a toxic agent that can be considered a chemical weapon - as part of a disarmament deal agreed in 2013 because Syria is widely used for commercial and domestic purposes.
article_snippet: The President Bashar al Assad regime and the rebels have accused each other of using chemical agents, including chlorine, in the nearly four-year war that has killed more than 210,000 .
article_snippet: of chlorine in Syria, most recently in December.
highlights_snippet: Chemical weapons watchdog to probe claims chlorine gas used in Syria .
  
highlights_snippet: Investigation will examine reports chlorine barrel bombs have been used .
  
highlights_snippet: Watchdog said Chemical weapons watchdog to probe claims chlorine gas used in Syria .
   