Indyplys: UN weapons inspectors attacked as they try to enter poison gas attack site in Syria
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Your support makes all the difference.Syria has insisted rebel forces were responsible for an attack in which a team of UN inspectors came under fire while trying to enter the site of an alleged gas attack.
Syrian state television claimed an information ministry source had said the international experts were shot at by "terrorists", a term it commonly uses to describe rebels trying to topple Bashar al-Assad.
Watch video of UN officials arriving in Syria ahead of the chemical weapons investigation below:
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