Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man receives treatment in hospital after the alleged gas attack in eastern Ghouta. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe Sana news agency cited an official source as saying the rebel group Jaish al-Islam was making “chemical attack fabrications in an exposed and failed attempt to obstruct advances by the Syrian Arab army”. On Sunday Pope Francis deplored the reported gas attack as an unjustifiable use of “instruments of extermination”. Local rebels, however, have insisted to Russian interlocutors that they want to remain in their city, a prospect that has heightened risks of renewed violence. Russia dismissed reports of a new chemical weapons attack on Sunday.

Source: The Guardian April 08, 2018 00:50 UTC