Syria: Russia says chemical weapons inspectors will be allowed into Douma theguardian.com

International chemical weapons inspectors will be allowed on Wednesday to visit the site of a poison gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma, Russian officials have said.

The attack last week led France, the US and the UK to launch missile strikes against three targets in Syria on Saturday morning, which were designed to degrade the remaining chemical weapons facilities of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Russia insisted video and pictures of the chemical attack in the then rebel-held area were faked with the help of British intelligence. Moscow said it had not been putting any barriers in the way of the fact-finding mission from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reaching the site.