Russia Denies Involvement in Syrian Gas Attacks

Russia is denying claims from Syrian rebels and human rights groups that it was behind a reported chlorine gas attack Tuesday in the same area where a Russian helicopter was shot down a day before, according to a Russian state media report. "I don’t have information; we don’t have information about how the operation is proceeding," Russia's TASS news agency reports Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying. "It is very hard to react to such information releases: it is...

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