UN says investigators would visit three sites that have purportedly been targeted with chemical weapons, SIA reports citing Aljazeera.
Syria has agreed to allow UN investigators to visit three sites to investigate accusations of chemical weapons use during the country's two year civil war, the United Nations said.
The announcement on Wednesday came as President Bashar al-Assad forces launched an assault on Khan al-Asal, an Aleppo village that was recently captured by rebels and a site of an alleged chemical weapons attack.
"The Mission will travel to Syria as soon as possible to contemporaneously investigate three of the reported incidents, including Khan al-Asal," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's press office said in a statement.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said the green light for the investigation followed last week's visit to Damascus by UN disarmament chief Angela Kane and the head of the chemical weapons investigation team, Ake Sellstrom, and "the understanding reached with the government of Syria".
The government and rebels blame each other for a purported March 19 chemical attack on Khan al-Asal that killed at least 30 people.
Nesirky did not give any details of the other two incidents to be investigated.
On Wednesday, regime troops attacked rebel positions outside Khan al-Assal, while fierce fighting erupted on the outskirts of the village, which the rebels seized on July 22, inflicting heavy losses on the army.
The army reportedly lost 150 soldiers over two days, 50 of them summarily executed after their capture, in an act condemned by the mainstream opposition leadership.
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