REUTERS/Feras Makdesi
US-led missile strikes against the Syrian regime began at 9 p.m. EDT, following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a sustained response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s apparent chemical weapons attack in the country.
“This massacre was a significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use by that very terrible regime,” Trump said on Friday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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