Syria Denies Role in Idlib Chemical Attack

The Syrian military categorically denied the accusations leveled against it about being involved in a suspected chemical attack in the country’s northwestern Idlib Province that killed dozens of people.

“The army command categorically denies using any chemical or toxic substance in Khan Shaykhun today,” the Syrian army said a statement carried by the official SANA news agency on Tuesday.

The Syrian military also stressed that “it has never used them (chemical weapons), anytime, anywhere, and will not do so in the future.”

The Syrian military further blamed any use of chemical weapons on Syria’s opposition and those who support them, noting that militants fabricate accusations of toxic gas attacks to divert attention from their failures on the ground.

Meanwhile, Syria’s Foreign Ministry issued a separate statement on Tuesday, strongly denying the use of poisonous gas in Khan Shaykhun or any other Syrian city or village by the country’s military and emphasizing that the Syrian Arab army did not possess any form of chemical weapons, Press TV reported.

The statement took to task Syria’s terrorist groups and their foreign supporters for circulating false news about Syrian army’s chemical attack on in Idlib Province, noting that such claims were fabricated after terrorists lost considerable ground to Syrian forces in the battlefield.