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President Donald Trump launched a deadly US airstrike against a Syrian air base after a horrific nerve gas attack which killed more than 80 of his own citizens
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'No
child of God should ever suffer such horror': US military fires 59 Tomahawk
cruise missiles on Trump's orders at Homs airfield where Syrian dictator Assad
launched chemical attack
The US military fired more
than 50 tomahawk missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield at 8.45pm EDT
Thursday
Moves comes just hours
after Trump said 'something should happen' following gas-attack atrocity
Trump had been weighing up
the possibility of launching military strikes after more than 80 were killed
and countless more were injured in the sarin poison gas attack
'Even beautiful babies were
cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack,' he said after launching the
strike in an announcement from Mar-a-Lago where he's hosting China's President,
'It was a slow and brutal death'
Pentagon confirmed the
military airfield was being used to store chemical weapons and was the base for
the aircraft involved in the chemical attack on Tuesday
At least four were killed,
and many more were injured, in the strike which has severely damaged or
destroyed the aircraft and support infrastructure
Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson said the US did not seek approval from Russia for the air strikes
saying Moscow had been 'complicit or incompetent' in failing to
stop chemical attacks in Syria
Russia has fired back
warning that the strike was 'an act of aggression against a UN member'
TIMELINE OF THE SYRIAN CIVIL
WAR AND US RESPONSE
The
U.S. attack on a Syrian air base came after years of heated debate and
deliberation in Washington over intervention in the bloody civil war.
Chemical
weapons have killed hundreds of people since the start of the conflict, with
the U.N. blaming three attacks on the Syrian government and a fourth on the
Islamic State group. One of the worst yet came Tuesday in rebel-held northern
Idlib and killed dozens, including women and children.
That
attack prompted President Donald Trump, on day 77 of his presidency, to
dramatically shift U.S. policy, with the first direct U.S. attack on the Syrian
government.
Trump blamed
Syrian President Bashar Assad for the attack and called on the international
community to join him in trying to end the bloodshed.
A
timeline of events in Syria leading up to Tuesday's attack:
March
2011: Protests erupt in the city
of Daraa over security forces' detention of a group of boys accused of painting
anti-government graffiti on the walls of their school. On March 15, a protest
is held in Damascus' Old City. On March 18, security forces open fire on a
protest in Daraa, killing four people in what activists regard as the first
deaths of the uprising. Demonstrations spread, as does the crackdown by
President Bashar Assad's forces.
April
2011: Security forces raid a sit-in in Syria's third-largest city, Homs, where
thousands of people tried to create the mood of Cairo's Tahrir Square, the
epicenter of protests against Egypt's autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Aug.
18, 2011: President Barack Obama
calls on Assad to resign and orders Syrian government assets frozen.
Summer
2012: Fighting spreads to Aleppo,
Syria's largest city and its former commercial capital.
August
20, 2012: Obama says the use of
chemical weapons would be a 'red line' that would change his calculus on
intervening in the civil war and have 'enormous consequences.'
March
19, 2013: The Syrian government
and opposition trade accusations over a gas attack that killed some 26 people,
including more than a dozen government soldiers, in the town of Khan al-Assal
in northern Syria. A U.N. investigation later finds that sarin nerve gas was
used, but does not identify a culprit.
August
21, 2013: Hundreds of people
suffocate in rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian capital, with many suffering from
convulsions, pinpoint pupils, and foaming at the mouth. U.N. investigators
visit the sites and determine that ground-to-ground missiles loaded with sarin
were fired on civilian areas while residents slept. The U.S. and others blame
the Syrian government, the only party to the conflict known to have sarin gas.
Aug.
31, 2013: Obama says he will go
to Congress for authorization to carry out punitive strikes against the Syrian
government, but appears to lack the necessary support in the legislature.
Sept.
27, 2013: The U.N. Security
Council orders Syria to account for and destroy its chemical weapons stockpile,
following a surprise agreement between Washington and Moscow, averting U.S.
strikes. The Security Council threatens to authorize the use of force in the
event of non-compliance.
Oct.
14, 2013: Syria becomes a
signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, prohibiting it from producing,
stockpiling or using chemical weapons.
June
23, 2014: The Organization for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it has removed the last of the Syrian
government's chemical weapons. Syrian opposition officials maintain that the
government's stocks were not fully accounted for, and that it retained
supplies.
Sept.
23, 2014: The U.S. launches
airstrikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria.
Aug. 7,
2015: The U.N. Security Council
authorizes the OPCW and U.N. investigators to probe reports of chemical weapons
use in Syria, as reports circulate of repeated chlorine gas attacks by
government forces against civilians in opposition-held areas. Chlorine gas,
though not as toxic as nerve agents, can be classified as a chemical weapon depending
on its use.
Aug.
24, 2016: The joint OPCW-U.N.
panel determines the Syrian government twice used helicopters to deploy
chlorine gas against its opponents, in civilian areas in the northern Idlib
province. A later report holds the government responsible for a third attack.
The attacks occurred in 2014 and 2015. The panel also finds that the Islamic
State group used mustard gas.
Feb.
28, 2017: Russia, a stalwart ally
of the Syrian government, and China veto a U.N. Security Council resolution
authorizing sanctions against the Syrian government for chemical weapons use.
April
4, 2017: At least 58 people are
killed in what doctors say could be a nerve gas attack on the town of Khan
Sheikhoun in the rebel-held Idlib province. Victims show signs of suffocation,
convulsions, foaming at the mouth and pupil constriction. Witnesses say the
attack was carried out by either Russian or Syrian Sukhoi jets. Moscow and
Damascus deny responsibility.
April
4, 2017: President Donald Trump
issues a statement saying that the 'heinous' actions of Assad's government are
the direct result of Obama administration's 'weakness and irresolution.'
April
5, 2017: Trump says Assad's
government has 'crossed a lot of lines' with the suspected chemical attack in
Syria.
April
6, 2017: The U.S. fired a barrage
of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week's
gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians, U.S. officials said. It was
the first direct American assault on the Syrian government and Trump's most
dramatic military order since becoming president. Trump said strike on Syria in
the 'vital national security interest' of the United States
REPUBLICAN vs.
DEMOCRATS: WHAT SENATORS ARE SAYING
John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey
Graham (R-SC): 'Unlike the
previous administration, President Trump confronted a pivotal moment in Syria
and took action. For that, he deserves the support of the American
people.
'Building
on tonight's credible first step, we must finally learn the lessons of history
and ensure that tactical success leads to strategic progress.'
Marco Rubio (R-FL): 'Tonight's strike against
the Assad regime's Shayrat Air Base will hopefully diminish his capacity to
commit atrocities against innocent civilians.
'By
acting decisively against the very facility from which Assad launched his
murderous chemical weapons attack, President Trump has made it clear to Assad
and those who empower him that the days of committing war crimes with impunity
are over.'
Ben Cardin (D-Md.): 'These military strikes against Assad's arsenal send
a clear signal that the United States will stand up for internationally
accepted norms and rules against the use of chemical weapons.
'However,
and I cannot emphasize this enough, any longer-term or larger military
operation in Syria by the Trump Administration will need to be done in
consultation with the Congress.'
Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.) said: 'The use of chemical
weapons against innocent Syrian men, women, and children is a clear violation
of international law. The Syrian regime must be held accountable for this
horrific act, and its actions underscore why the United States should embrace
innocent people who are fleeing in terror.
'But
the Constitution gives the power to authorize the use of military force to the
legislative branch. Expanded military intervention in Syria requires action by
Congress. If President Trump expects such an authorization, he owes the
American people an explanation of his strategy to bring an end to the violence
in Syria. We should not escalate this conflict without clear goals and a plan
to achieve them.'
House Speaker Paul Ryan ( R-
WI): 'Earlier this week the Assad
regime murdered dozens of innocent men, women, and children in a barbaric
chemical weapons attack. Tonight the United States responded. This action was
appropriate and just.'
Rand Paul (R-Ky): 'While we all condemn the atrocities in Syria, the
United States was not attacked. The President needs congressional authorization
for military action as required by the Constitution, and I call on him to come to
Congress for a proper debate.'
Charles E. Schumer (D-NY): 'Making sure Assad knows that when he commits such
despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do. It is
incumbent on the Trump administration to come up with a strategy and consult
with Congress before implementing it.'
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): 'Today, after eight years of Obama foreign policy
failures, Syria is a humanitarian disaster. Bashar al-Assad is a monster, a
puppet of Russia and Iran, and he has once again used chemical weapons against
his own citizens, murdering innocent men, women, and children.
'Any
military action in Syria must be justified as protecting the vital national
security interests of America – including decisive action to prevent chemical
weapons from falling into the hands of radical Islamic terrorists – and I look
forward to our Commander-in-Chief making the case to Congress and the American
people how we should do so in the days ahead.'
'An unacceptable massacre':
World leaders condemn chemical attack
Pope
Francis has called the suspected chemical weapons attack 'an unacceptable
massacre.'
The
pope said Wednesday that he was 'watching with horror at the latest events in
Syria', and said he 'strongly deplored the unacceptable massacre.'
French
President Francois Hollande accused Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad of being
responsible for the carnage.
'Those
who support this regime can once again reflect on the enormity of their
political, strategic and moral responsibility,' he said.
German
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday branded the deadly suspected chemical
attack in Syria a 'war crime' and demanded Russia and Iran put pressure on
President Assad.
Lebanese
Prime Minister Saad Hariri says people should not be shocked by the chemical
attack because the international community is allowing such acts to
happen.
Australian
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that the use of chemical weapons is
'illegal and abhorrent.'
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the world must act to rid Syria of
chemical weapons.
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