Tulsi Gabbard declines to call Assad a war criminal

Washington: Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu US Congresswoman and Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, said that she believed her past comments on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been misunderstood, declining to call him a war criminal. Gabbard was pressed during a CNN interview on Sunday whether she believed Assad used chemical warfare against Syrian civilians. (IANS)

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