US justifies White Helmets humanitarian mission in Syria
(Baonghean.vn) - A US Department of Defense official said on September 12 that the US still maintains its position that the non-governmental organization White Helmets continues to save many lives in Syria.
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| White helmets dig through rubble after an airstrike on a mosque in Aleppo, Syria. Photo: AP |
"The White Helmets are a humanitarian organization that has saved thousands of lives and continues to respond to airstrikes by Russian and Syrian military forces," the unnamed official said. The defense official said the United States and the international community continue to support the work of the White Helmets.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the White Helmets and terrorists had selected 22 families with children and orphans kidnapped from refugee camps to use as victims for a staged chemical weapons attack in Idlib to blame the Syrian government.
According to the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, terrorists from the group calling itself Tanzim Hurras ad-Din (Defenders of Religious Organizations) were directly involved in preparing sites for detonating containers containing toxic substances, which were captured in a video about "chemical attacks."
The Russian center stated that the White Helmets and the Nusra Front terrorists had agreed to select two out of nine tapes to later be sent to the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), while the remaining tapes would be used to spread on social networks due to poor image quality./.
