August 2013. A vigil is held in Idlib to commemorate the ninth anniversary of an alleged chemical attack by Syrian government forces in Eastern Ghouta. Demonstrators held banners holding the government of Bashar Al-Assad responsible for the attack and calling for justice on behalf of the victims. More than 1,400 civilians are believed to have perished in an attack with chemical weapons in eastern Ghouta and in the Muadamiyat al-Sham areas of Damascus on August 21, 2013. A number of armed militants of the opposition group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham attended the vigil

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