A former Syrian forensic medicine expert has provided evidence that the Assad regime used chemical weapons, opposition forces say.
Abdeltawwab Shahrour, head of the forensic medicine committee in Aleppo, is expected to hold a news conference on the alleged March 19 chemical attack in Khan al-Assal, Aleppo, said Istanbul-based opposition coalition spokeswoman Sarah Karkour.
Mr Shahrour, who has defected to Turkey, has documents proving the attack took place and eye-witness accounts from police authorities that contradicted the administration's version of events, a second opposition official said.
Both the government and rebels have blamed each other for what they say was an attack involving chemical weapons. More than two dozen people died.
Russia, which alongside Iran is Syria's closest ally and chief arms supplier, said in July its own scientific analysis indicated the attack had involved the nerve agent sarin and had most likely been carried out by the rebels.
Both sides deny using chemical weapons.
A team of UN experts who visited Syria last month to investigate allegations of chemicals weapons had originally planned to visit Khan al-Assal.
However, it ended up focusing on a much larger apparent poison gas attack which killed hundreds of civilians in suburbs of the capital Damascus on August 21.
The new opposition claims come as France bolstered calls for military action in Syria by saying it had evidence the regime was behind the "massive and co-ordinated" chemical attack in Damascus.
Syria's government called the allegations "illogical" and warned it would retaliate if France took military action.
The US government has also said evidence points to deadly sarin gas being used to kill 1,429 people in August.
US President Barack Obama has been meeting political figures such as Senator John McCain as he tries to galvanise support for military strikes ahead of a debate in Congress.
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