In Moscow, Tillerson Defends Trump’s ‘Animal’ Comment: Assad ‘Brought [it] Upon Himself’

Blasting what he called “media hysteria” over a April 4 chemical weapons attack in Syria, Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov disagreed sharply with his U.S. counterpart Wednesday over the Assad regime’s responsibility for the deadly assault, and delivered a curt lecture about past Western efforts to dislodge dictators. Read