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Note: This article has been updated to reflect Secretary of Defense Mattis’ and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dunford comments on the Syrian missile strikes.
"Friday night President Trump addressed the nation in a televised news conference announcing that the United States was carrying out a strategic strikes on Syria with Britain and France as he was speaking.
"The strikes, which contained nearly double the amount of missiles as the 2017 Syrian strike, is in response to Syria’s dictator Assad gassing entire families to death Saturday night in Douma and East Ghouta.
"Groups in the area, which put Assad’s chemical gas attack death toll at more than 70, said many residents were hiding in cellars, suffocating from poison gas.
"There are images and videos emerging of explosions in Damascus, the Syrian capital." . . .
Haley to Russia on Syria’s Chemical Weapons: ‘We Know Who Did This’
"If Russia kept its promise to remove chemical weapons from Syria, “we would not be here today.' ”
Efforts To Minimize Civilian Casualties In Syria Appear Successful "Looks like there is some additional good news from the airstrikes in Syria tonight: not only were the strikes we conducted in coordination with Britain and France successful in hitting their selected targets, early local sources are reporting no civilian casualties (disregarding of course the obvious Russian/Syrian allied propaganda outlets).
Note: This article has been updated to reflect Secretary of Defense Mattis’ and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dunford comments on the Syrian missile strikes.
"Friday night President Trump addressed the nation in a televised news conference announcing that the United States was carrying out a strategic strikes on Syria with Britain and France as he was speaking.
"The strikes, which contained nearly double the amount of missiles as the 2017 Syrian strike, is in response to Syria’s dictator Assad gassing entire families to death Saturday night in Douma and East Ghouta.
"Groups in the area, which put Assad’s chemical gas attack death toll at more than 70, said many residents were hiding in cellars, suffocating from poison gas.
"There are images and videos emerging of explosions in Damascus, the Syrian capital." . . .
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"If Russia kept its promise to remove chemical weapons from Syria, “we would not be here today.' ”
Efforts To Minimize Civilian Casualties In Syria Appear Successful "Looks like there is some additional good news from the airstrikes in Syria tonight: not only were the strikes we conducted in coordination with Britain and France successful in hitting their selected targets, early local sources are reporting no civilian casualties (disregarding of course the obvious Russian/Syrian allied propaganda outlets).
"In a briefing from the Pentagon earlier tonight, Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis described the avoidance of civilian casualties as a top priority.
“ 'We did very close analysis,” said Mattis. “We did everything we could, in our intelligence assessment and our planning, to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties. We are very much aware this is difficult to do in a situation like this.' ” . . .
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