MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused unnamed states on Wednesday of using a "biased" U.N. human rights report on Syria to condemn President Bashar al-Assad's government and gloss over abuses by his foes, especially Islamist militants.
A sharply worded Foreign Ministry statement was the latest in a series of Russian accusations that Western states and international groups put too much blame on Assad's government for the conflict that has killed 80,000 people since March 2011.
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