Russia says both Syrian sides to blame for massacre

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow was deeply alarmed by the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla but that it was clear both President Bashar Assad's government and rebels were to blame.

"We are dealing with a situation in which both sides evidently had a hand in the deaths of innocent people," Lavrov said at a joint news conference with visiting British Foreign Secretary William Hague. (Reuters)