Dingell says USA has moral responsibility to end violence in Syria

The US is not at war with the Syrian regime – though it disputes its legitimacy. “Shayrat Airfield was used to store chemical weapons and Syrian air forces”, Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said in the statement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin believed the USA attacks on Syria showed aggression against a sovereign state.

Llorenti also said the U.S. has a history of intervening in other nations, including in Latin America – and he held up a photo of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2003, during his famous “weapons of mass destruction” speech at the U.N., to illustrate his argument. “This brutal assault was the latest in a long series of atrocities carried out by the Assad regime against its own people”, she said.

Notwithstanding this, there are many problems where progress can only be made if the USA and Russian Federation work together.

They’re calling on Trump to obtain congressional authorization for USA military involvement in Syria.

He also said the attack had increased the regime’s resolve to “crush” terrorists in Syria – the term it uses for all opposition forces. Assad’s main allies in the region, Russian Federation and Iran, have also condemned the move, with Russia’s President Putin saying that it violated worldwide laws and would worsen relations between the USA and Russian Federation. That’s according to TASS, which adds that Russian Federation will now reinforce the Syrian army’s air defense system.

“No doubt this will leave great tension on the political level, but I do not expect a military escalation”.

The Syrian decision to use chemical weapons on civilian targets in Khan Sheikhoun in an effort to seek control of the last rebel held territory of Idlib and the U.S. reaction have created a new dynamics in the Syrian crisis.

They hit the Shayrat airbase in central Syria, near the city of Homs. Stocks weakened in Asia and USA equity index futures slid, indicating Wall Street would open lower on Friday.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande issued a joint statement in response to the USA air strike and blamed Assad for the United States action.

“They’re above us, threatening us again”, he said, as warplanes circled overhead, carrying out at least one strike outside the town.

Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, told reporters the USA strikes had been conducted to help rebel groups fighting Assad.

French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint statement that they were given prior notice of the U.S. operation. “Assad is entirely responsible for the development of the situation”.

While authorizing use of force against Assad under this resolution would not survive a Russian or Chinese Security Council veto, the broader global community understands humanitarian intervention is a viable last resort. Trump ordered the strikes without approval from Congress or the backing of the United Nations.

It was unclear if that was related to the USA strikes. “European Union will work with the United States to end brutality in Syria”.

“In words and actions President Trump sent a strong and clear response: The use of chemical weapons is unacceptable”, Netanyahu said in a statement.

So when the massacre took place in Ghouta, an eastern suburb of the Syrian capital where USA intelligence said some 1,400 were killed by a sarin gas attack, all eyes turned toward Washington.

While Syria, backed by its ally Russian Federation, insist that they were not involved, it has a track record of using chemical munitions.

United States ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley adds that “our priority is no longer to sit and focus on getting Assad out”.

“These events underscore my belief that there is no other way to solve the conflict than through a political solution”.

The Kremlin accused Trump of reneging on pledges to focus on fighting Islamic State jihadists and insisted the move would “inflict considerable damage on US-Russia relations, which are already in a lamentable state”.

Russian Federation was warned of the attack before it took place.

‘This attack was clearly an attempt to win over hearts and minds, ‘ Syrian Twitter user Mostafa Mahamed said in response to the Trump-Assad meme. Instead they repeated multiple times that the United States action was “understandable”.