DAMASCUS: Syria´s interior ministry on Friday announced the arrest of a general from ousted president Bashar al-Assad´s era, accusing him of involvement in a 2013 chemical attack on a suburb of the capital, Damascus.
In August 2013, the army under Assad´s rule was accused of using chemical weapons to target areas then under rebel control, killing more than 1,400 men, women and children, according to US intelligence and rights groups.
