Russia’s Claim That Assad Regime Bombed a Rebel Chemical Weapons Facility Challenged in UNSC Meeting

Russia argued Wednesday that those killed by a toxic agent in Syria’s Idlib province were the victims not of chemical-laced bombs dropped by the regime’s planes, but of chemicals released when the air force bombed a rebel storage facility. The US and France challenged those claims at a U.N. Security Council meeting, laying the responsibility for the attack at the door of the Assad regime.