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In this Feb. 10, 2017 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Yahoo News in Damascus, Syria. Syria decried a U.S. missile strike early Friday, April 7, 2017 on a government-controlled air base where U.S. officials say the Syrian military launched a deadly chemical attack earlier this week.
President Trump's missile strike against Syria is the first time the U.S. took direct military action against the Assad regime since the civil war began there in 2011. But some Syrians have been asking for more U.S. involvement for some time.
Say what you like about Donald Trump's rocky start as leader of the free world, but he should be congratulated for taking swift military action in response to President Assad's use of chemical weapons. By sending Tomahawk missiles to obliterate the al-Shayrat air base - from which Syrian air force jets launched their sickening Sarin gas attack last week - Trump succeeded at a stroke in doing what Barack Obama had so abjectly failed to do: enforce his own ill-advised 'red line' warning of 2012 over the use of chemical weapons.
Obama warned Assad the use of chemical or biological weapons would cross a "red line" for the U.S.in 2012. The US missile strike on a Syrian airbase came days after the chemical attack that killed scores in Idlib but years after the evidence began piling up of brutality, torture, the deliberate targeting of civilians, medical facilities and aid and the repeated use of chlorine by forces fighting to defend Bashar al-Assad's regime.
More than four years ago, President Barack Obama vowed action if Syria crossed a "red line" and used chemical weapons on its own people. But when hundreds of Syrians died in a chemical weapons attack in the Ghouta region outside Damascus in 2013, Obama failed to act.
Assad's base in ruins: Dramatic satellite photos reveal how airfield that Trump pounded with 59 Tomahawks is 'almost completely destroyed' after punishment for deadly chemical weapon attack Kremlin tells US it is 'one step from war' as Trump warns he will hit Syria AGAIN after unleashing a surprise attack on Russia's ally Assad Did Russia bomb hospital to cover up Syrian gas horror? New U.S. probe on Kremlin involvement as U.N. ambassador warns America could strike 'more' Syria claims it KNEW America was about to launch airstrikes hours before the attack on its airbase and moved its planes out of the way Take your best shot, Donald: Syrian warplanes take off from airbase targeted by US cruise missiles just hours later as Assad mounts new attacks on town he gassed Putin makes his move after condemning Trump's 'illegal' air strike on Assad: Russian battleship is positioned between US ... (more)
President Donald Trump ordered the first U.S. military strikes against Syria last night since the war began in 2011, firing 59 Tomahawk missiles on an airbase in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack in Idlib that killed some 86 people, over 30 of the In this image from video provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. This satellite image released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows a damage assessment image of Shayrat air base in Syria, following U.S. Tomahawk Land Attack Missile strikes on Friday, April 7, 2017 from the USS Ross and USS Porter , Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers.
Media figures and pundits celebrated President Donald Trump's "swift, decisive" order to destroy a Syrian airbase in retaliation for what is believed to be a chemical warfare attack against Syrian rebels that killed dozens of people, including children. Pundits praised Trump's "readiness to act on instinct" and declared that Trump "made Americans proud."
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an statement about missile strikes on a Syrian airbase, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida . It happened again.
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, speaks during a press conference, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Damascus, Syria. Moallem told reporters Thursday that it didn't use chem... .
Syrian media say... Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan is embracing the town halls that many of his Republican counterparts in Congress have avoided as people lash out at President Donald Trump's early actions. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan is embracing the town halls that many of his Republican counterparts in Congress have avoided as people lash out at President Donald Trump's early actions.
The US military said Wednesday it targeted and killed a longtime al Qaeda leader in an airstrike near Idlib, Syria. Abu Hani al-Masri was killed in an unmanned drone strike on Saturday, a US senior defense official told CNN.
The fierce battle over President Donald Trump's travel and refugee ban edged up the judicial escalator Monday, headed for a possible final face-off at the Supreme Court. Travelers, temporarily unbound, tearfully reunited with loved ones at U.S. airports.
Just hours after an appeals court blocked an attempt to... . Members of International Migrants Alliance in Hong Kong hold placards during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's selective country travel ban outside of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017.
Gabbard's press release came less than a week after she detailed her trip in another press released and received public and political criticism for the purpose and merits of the trip. "Though the trip has met every requirement of the House Ethics Committee, the congresswoman has decided to reimburse AACCESS-Ohio for the trip because it has become a distraction from the important issue at hand - do the American people want their taxpayer dollars to continue to be used in support of militant groups working hand-in-hand with al-Qaeda and ISIS in the effort to overthrow the Syrian government?" the release issued by Erika Tsuji from Gabbard's said.
A Defense Department review delivered to Congress on Tuesday concludes that senior leaders at the U.S. Central Command did not exaggerate the progress the U.S. was making in fighting Islamic State militants, two U.S. officials said. The long-awaited report from the Pentagon's inspector general is not expected to satisfy intelligence analysts who complained that officials were improperly reworking intelligence assessments being prepared for President Barack Obama and other top policymakers to offer a rosier view of U.S. operations against IS.
In this July 26, 2016, file photo, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Gabbard says she met with Syrian President Bashar Assad during a recent trip to the war-torn country.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a sophomore Hawaii Democrat and Iraq War veteran, recently embarked on what her office called a "fact-finding" mission to Damascus, in Syria. Congressional travel to the devastated country is exceedingly rare, especially as fighting continues in direct violation of a recent cease-fire agreement brokered by Turkey and Russia.
Jan 15 The Syrian army and allied militia clashed with rebels in Wadi Barada near Damascus on Sunday, threatening to disrupt planned repair works to a pumping station that supplies most of the capital's water, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and the allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah had made some gains against rebels in the Wadi Barada area.