SYRIAN Kurdish militia accused Western-backed insurgents of using white phosphorus chemical weapons in attacks on residential areas.

People’s Protection Units (YPG) spokesman Redur Xelil said late on Tuesday that the coalition of rebel factions occupying the eastern half of Aleppo had fired rockets into the YPG-controlled suburb of Sheikh Maqsood that afternoon.

He said that the rockets carried a yellow material believed to be white phosphorus, weapons-grade quantities of which typically have a yellow hue.