WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and Russia are "isolated and alone" in asserting that Syrian rebels were likely responsible for the August 21 chemical weapons attack on civilians near Damascus that prompted a U.S. threat of military action, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Arguing against President Barack Obama's proposed U.S. military strike on Syria in an op-ed piece published in the New York Times on Thursday, Putin blamed the rebels for the attack.
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