Premonition of War? Alleged Idlib Chemical Attack Seen as ‘Modern Casus Belli’
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Ammar Abdullah
The alleged chemical attack on Syria's Idlib province became a formal pretext for the US to attack Syria and aggravate its ties with Russia, independent expert Igor Nikolaichuk told Sputnik.
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