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U.S. Lays Out Case For Assad's Culpability In Chemical Weapons Attack

The White House released a declassified report on the attack in Khan Shaykhun. It says the U.S. is "confident" Syria's Bashar Assad was responsible and that Russia is attempting to deflect blame.
A minivan drives past a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus last week. U.S. forces fired a barrage of cruise missiles at a Syrian air base Thursday in response to what President Trump called a "barbaric" chemical attack he blamed on the Assad regime.

White House officials say the U.S. intelligence community is confident that Syrian President Bashar Assad attacked his own people with chemical weapons on April 4 — and that an alternate explanation offered by Russia is an effort to deflect blame and "confuse the world community."

Senior administration officials "suggested that

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