A confidential report by the global chemical weapons watchdog has found mustard gas again being used in Syria, according to the Reuters news agency.
According to Al Jazeera sources the gas was used during violence between Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and a rebel group in the northern town of Marea in August.
It's the first confirmation of sulphur mustard being used in Syria since the country agreed to destroy its chemical weapons supply.
A confidential October 29 report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a summary of which was shown to Reuters, concluded "with the utmost confidence that at least two people were exposed to sulphur mustard" in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, on August 21.
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