SMIRKING DEVIL
Syrian dictator Assad smirks as sobbing and wounded children evacuate after chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta
THESE pictures of a smiling Syrian President Bashar Assad show a man a million miles away from the horrible suffering he is accused of unleashing on his own people.
The callous tyrant was meeting an equally jovial looking adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene - as civilians recover close-by from a chemical attack that murdered at least 70 people and injured 500 more.
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But there is good reason for Assad to be smirking as he met the high-ranking Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati.
Following the Russian and Iranian backed regime’s massive conventional - and apparently chemical attacks - on the city of Douma, rebel opposition has collapsed.
Mr Velayait told reporters he hoped the Syrian regime would now "expel the American occupiers" in the country's northeast.
Meanwhile Russian TV footage showed cheering crowds waving flags surrounded by war-torn buildings to welcome their “liberators”.
But haunting photographs of civilians being evacuated under a deal between rebels and Russian troops tell a different story than being peddled by propagandists.
Russian military says the Syrian government is now in full control of Douma after chemical attack on the rebel stronghold
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Families with young kids peer out of bus windows looking exhausted and traumatised.
Other photographs show children being treated in their seats.
These people are a far cry from the happy civilians who have been liberated on Russia's TV.
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It came almost exactly a year after a chemical attack in the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun killed dozens of people.
That assault prompted the US to launch several dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base.
And the current situation appears to be a case of history repeating itself.
It is expected British PM Theresa May is preparing to authorise UK forces to attack Assad along with the US and France.
French President Emmanuel Macron says he has 'proof' that Assad government in Syria attacked Douma with chemical weapons
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