WASHINGTON
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry said on Friday there was “strong evidence” that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad had used chemical weapons against rebel forces.
“This fight is about the terrible choices that the Assad regime has made with its willingness to kill anywhere... to use gas, which we believe there is strong evidence of,” Kerry said during a Google+ hangout.
Meanwhile, 25 people were killed in army shelling in the central Syrian town of Halfayeh on Friday after a months-old local truce between the army and rebels broke down, while Russia’s foreign minister said that Moscow had no new plans to sell an advanced air defence system to Syria, but left open the possibility it could deliver such systems under an existing contract.
In another Syria-related development, the UN Security Council said that it will add the Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian militants Al-Nusra Front to its sanctions blacklist next week.
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