‘America plans aggression’

WASHINGTON is preparing an act of military aggression against Syria by claiming President Bashar al-Assad is preparing a chemical weapons attack, first deputy chairperson of the Russian lower house’s Defence Committee Andrey Krasov said yesterday.

Earlier, the US said it had identified potential preparations by al-Assad’s forces.

“They need to somehow justify this aggression…” Krasov said, noting that Washington was using “pseudo news” to “destabilise the situation in a number of states”.