Chemical gun attacks, U.S. State Department reacts

US Department of State spokeswoman Heather Nauert has indicated that if these terrible news is confirmed, then this brings the need for an urgent response from the international community”, the Anadolu Agency (AA) broadcasts.

Nauert has issued a written statement about the attack on chemical weapons containing toxic gas content from Bashar al Assad's regime in East Guta County, under regime siege.

We are closely following the situation that on April 7th again chemical weapons have been used. If these terrible news reports are confirmed, then this brings the need for an urgent response from the international community”, Nauert says.

Saying the US will continue activities to hold as responsible those using chemical weapons in Syria, Nauert has noted that the Assad regime in Syria has already used chemical weapons to its people.

Assad's “Regime and supporters must immediately take responsibility so that similar attacks do not repeat. Russia, with this endless support offered to the regime, is a shareholder in these attacks, of using chemical weapons to Syria's hopeless people, and of targeting civilians. Russia has failed to meet the guarantees it made as a guarantor of the United Nations to protect Syria. Russia has betrayed the UN Security Council and the Chemical Weapons Convention”, Nauert said.

It emphasises that the US calls for completion as soon as Russia's full support of the Assad regime.

According to information shared by social networks from the Civil Protection Teams (White Holmetts) in the Eastern Guta, 40 civilians have lost their lives in the armed attack of Assad's regime on civilian settlements in Duma County, which is the last checkpoint under opposition control in the Eastern Guta, while hundreds have been affected by gas.