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Bashar Assad Tells AFP That Chemical Attack Was Western 'Fabrication'

The U.S. intelligence community is confident the Syrian president used the nerve agent sarin against civilians. Assad, in an interview with the wire service, claimed the evidence is all fake.
Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in an earlier interview with AFP, in February 2016 in Damascus.

Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to deny responsibility for a chemical attack in the town of Khan Shaykhun, claiming the attack was "100 percent ... fabrication" and video evidence showing choking victims is

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