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Reuters: Inspectors push to visit suspected Syria gas attack site after Western strikes

Published April 16, 2018 at 2:48 pm

Syrian journalists and regime members are seen inside a tunnel previously used by rebel-fighter for smuggling goods and taking shelter, in Jobar in Eastern Ghouta on April 2, 2018.Syria's regime drew closer to taking full control of Eastern Ghouta as state media reported that fighters began evacuating from the last rebel-held pocket of the former opposition stronghold near Damascus. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA

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International inspectors were to try on April 16 to visit the site of a suspected gas attack which brought U.S.-led missile strikes on Syria and heightened the diplomatic confrontation between the West and President Bashar al-Assad’s main ally Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on April 15 more Western attacks on Syria would bring chaos to world affairs, and Washington prepared to increase pressure on Russia with new economic sanctions.