Assad says army 'gave up' all chemical weapons

The United States told Russian Federation at the United Nations on Wednesday that is it isolating itself by continuing to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Britain said its scientists found sarin was used in a deadly toxic gas attack on Syrian civilians last week.

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He suggested that photographs showing children who had died in the attack, which provoked revulsion around the world, were staged.

In fact, reports of what happened came from eyewitnesses, victims and medical staff. Less than three months later, Kerry issued another statement in response to chlorine attacks that pointed again to "deep concerns regarding the accuracy and completeness of Syria's declaration".

Five days after the attack, he posted a photograph on Twitter of protesters, including children, holding up signs and flags right beside what activists identified as the impact crater of the chemical-laden explosive dropped on Khan Sheikhoun.

President Assad's flat denial that his country has used chemical weapons and that last week's incident was a fabrication concocted by al-Qaeda and Washington does not square with the "case for the prosecution". Moscow offered the explanation that regime aircraft hit a chemical weapons facility controlled by rebels on the ground.

But the UK Ministry of Defence and Turkish authorities say they have carried out tests on samples which provide evidence that Sarin or a similar substance was used. "We don't know if the whole pictures or video that we've been seeing are true, or fabricated", the Syrian president insisted.

But Mr Wilkie, who resigned from the intelligence agency Office of National Assessments in 2003 in protest over Australia's role in the Iraq War, said the Federal Government should have "learned from the past".

"One only has to ask two questions. Why?"

He added that the Syrian army had given up all its chemical weapons and that Syrian military power was not affected by the US strike. We've eliminated Syria's declared chemical weapons program.

He added that "morally" the Syrian government would never do this "because it's not acceptable".

Ties between Russian Federation and the U.S. have been strained in recent days, with Moscow attacking America's "primitive and loutish" rhetoric over Syria.

The fact-finding mission was sent by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague to gather bio-metric samples and interview survivors, sources told Reuters on Thursday.

"The west, mainly the United States, is hand in glove with the terrorists", he said in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP). "Not only the United States, whoever wants to target terrorists, we are partners", he said. Russian officials said the gas had been released by an air strike on a poison gas storage depot controlled by rebels.

Images from Khan Sheikhun of victims convulsing and foaming at the mouth caused widespread worldwide outrage.

"You have a lot of fake videos now", he said.

Writing for the 'Westmonster' website, the former Labour and Respect MP said the idea that Assad was behind the recent suspected chemical attack at Sheikoun Khan was off the mark.

The Syrian government agreed to surrender its chemical weapons stocks to an global watchdog after the deaths of hundreds in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus in 2013, although the opposition has long accused the regime of holding back some of its supply. One man told how 25 members of his family had died, including his two young twins. "No", Trump said. But, he added, "I see them using gas. we have to do something".

However, independent bodies are already investigating.

"But nearly a year before Rice made those comments, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper had told Congress that Syria had continued to use chemical weapons, such as chlorine, against it's own people".