A boy breathes through an oxygen mask in the Damascus suburb of Saqba after an attack the US now says involved the nerve agent sarin. Photo: Reuters Sarin, the deadly nerve gas which the US says was unleashed last month by the Syrian regime in a Damascus suburb, was developed by Nazi scientists in 1938. Originally conceived as a pesticide, sarin was used by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime to gas thousands of Kurds in the...
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