The United States on Friday accused Russia of helping fabricate a story about chemical weapons used by Syrian rebels as a pretext to undermine a shaky truce, AFP reports.

“On November 24, 2018, the Assad regime and Russia falsely accused the opposition and extremist groups of conducting a chlorine attack in northwestern Aleppo,” said State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino.

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