Media: Assad allowed the use of chlorine in Idlib

The Syrian dictator Bashar al -Assad allowed his military to use chlorine as a poisonous substance when Idlib Muhafaz was coming on Muhafaz - one of the few Syrian territories remaining control of the rebels. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to unnamed American officials familiar with intelligence reports.

According to the publication, US President Donald Trump has not yet decided which actions of the Syrian government forces and their allies can become the basis for the American strike on Assad’s troops, and whether the United States will attack the Russian and Iranian forces in the event of a new military intervention.

It is claimed that recently, during the discussion of the situation in Syria, the ladder threatened to inflict a massive blow by Assad in case of a “massacre” in Idlib. According to the UN, about 800 thousand people can become victims of the attack in Idlib.

On the eve of the White Helmets, the Assada Army helicopter dropped more than 20 bombs to the city of Habit in the south of Muhafazi Idlib; Two children were killed, four more civilians were injured. On Saturday, Russian aviation bombed a residential building in the village of Abdin in Idlib. Four people were killed, including one child; Five more people, including three children, suffered.

Moscow accuses the Himatima of the Syrian rebels of preparing the staging - on September 8 in the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that on this day such staging can arrange in several cities in Muhafaz Idlib.

On September 1, CNN reported that the United States has compiled a preliminary list of Syrian chemical weapons , which can be struck in the event of a chemical stake in Idlib. Then it was reported that the forces of Assad transferred military helicopters to the borders of Muhafazy. Washington fears that in addition to the use of ordinary weapons, they can be used to discharge bombs with chlorine.

Damascus plans to soon start with the support of Moscow an attack on Idlib. On the eve of the summit in Tehran Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani could not agree on a truce in Syria. Putin said peace negotiations are impossible in the absence of representatives of the armed opposition and the Syrian authorities. “There are no representatives of“ Jebhat al-Nusra ”(the old name of one of the groups included in the Islamist rebel alliance“ Hayat Tahrir Esh-Sham ”), the“ Islamic state ”or the Syrian army,” he said. According to the Russian leader, the Syrian government has the right and is obliged to take control of the entire territory of the country.