... and Identification Team ( ITT ) that is tasked with identifying the perpetrators of the use of chemical weapons in Syria’s brutal civil war, now in its tenth year. “Military operations of such a strategic nature as these three ... these conclusions as the only ones that could reasonably be reached from the information obtained”, the report said. Syria is among the 193 States parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention , which outlaws the production, stockpiling, and ... Mission later confirmed with “high degree of confidence” that chlorine and mustard gas have been used as weapons in Syria. The ITT’s mandate is to establish the facts behind incidents involving the use or likely use of chemical weapons ...