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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking during a previous interview with Croatian newspaper Vecernji List in Damascus, Syria, April 6.

Interview: Syria’s Assad says US ‘fabricated’ chemical attack to justify strikes

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In an exclusive interview with AFP in Damascus — his first since the alleged April 4 attack prompted a US airstrike on Syrian forces — Bashar al-Assad said his army had given up all its chemical weapons and that Syrian military power was not affected by the US strike.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad gestures while parliament members clap in Damascus, Syria on June 7, 2016.

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: Rex Tillerson is ‘hallucinating’

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