A Syrian man shows remnants of rockets reportedly fired by regime forces on the rebel-held besieged town of Douma on Jan. 22, 2018. At least 21 cases of suffocation, including children, were reported in Ghouta, an NGO accusing the regime of carrying out a new chemical attack said. (Hasan Mohamad/AFP via Getty Images)
BEIRUT ― Syria’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed as “null and void” U.S. accusations that President Bashar Assad’s government is producing and using “new kinds of weapons” to deliver deadly chemicals despite committing to abolish its program in 2013.
The ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Syria confirms the American statements are “nothing more than lies” based on the accounts of what the Trump administration called its partners on ground.
Syria also says that reports by Western-backed media outlets about Damascus using chemical weapons “is a new version of U.S. and Western desperate intentions to create” an excuses to attack Syria.
A crane transfers containers of Syrian chemical weapons from a Danish freighter to a US military ship ahead of their destruction at sea on July 2, 2014, in the port of Gioia Tauro, southern Italy. (Mario LaPorta/AFP/Getty Images)
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