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The United nations War Crimes investigators have on Wednesday stated that the Syrian government have used chemical weapons around 27 times since the current civil war commenced including in April's deadly attack on Khan Sheikhoun.

The investigators revealed that the Assad led Syrian government's warplane dropped sarin on the town in Idlib province, killing more than 80 civilians.

"Government forces continued the pattern of using chemical weapons against civilians in opposition-held areas. In the gravest incident, the Syrian air force used sarin in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, killing dozens, the majority of whom were women and children," the U.N. report said, declaring the attack a war crime.

Commission chairman Paulo Pinheiro told a news conference: "Not having access did not prevent us from establishing facts or reasonable grounds to believe what happened during the attack and establishing who is responsible."

Furthermore, the U.N. Report acknowledged that U.S. air strikes on a mosque in Al-Jina in rural Aleppo in March that killed 38 people, including children, failed to take precautions in violation of international law, but did not constitute a war crime.

Meanwhile, the Assad government has consistently denied using any form of chemical weapons. It said its strikes in Khan Sheikhoun hit a weapons depot belonging to rebel forces which may be the source of the chemical traces.