That mintpress site is shady af, from zero transparency into funding sources to the impossible-to-deny red flag of attributing stories to writers who immediately deny all involvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

And trying to triangulate the truth somewhere between them and Bellingcat works about as well as a Tesla trying to triangulate between the highway exit and continuing in its lane. As but one example: either Assad dropped chemical weapons on his citizens, or the rebels did. The former is supported by famous fans of US imperialism like the UN, Doctors’ without Borders, Amnesty, the EU. and the reality that Assad was generally known to posses those weapons and delivery capabilities. Taking the other side are Putin, Assad, and, probably, Glen Greenwald.