FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London, March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday that Britain believed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government was responsible for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria's Idlib province, despite his rejection of culpability.
In an earlier interview with news agency AFP, Assad said the alleged poison gas attack earlier this month which the United States and its allies blamed on the Syrian military was "100 percent fabrication".
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