Jets launch raids from Syria base hit by USA: monitor

Russia has suspended the memorandum of understanding on the prevention of flight safety incidents in Syria with the United States, which was signed in 2015, and called for a meeting of the UN Security Council in the wake of the USA missile strike, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement earlier. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday called for the U.S.to ground the Assad regime’s air force, while Sen.

We need not concede an inch of moral approbation to the Assad regime to recognize these very real complications the regime change narrative ignores. “No child of God should ever suffer such horror”.

“American involvement in the war in Syria has been dangling for a long time like a sword of Damocles”, Baklitsky said.

In a tweet on Friday, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)-the only member of Congress to vote against the AUMF back in 2001-called the airstrikes in Syria ordered by Trump “an act of war”.

It also offered a window into the decision-making style of the new President, even if the exact reason for such an abrupt about-face remained unclear.

Congress was unable to muster the support to even proceed to an authorization of the use of force, but the US and Russian Federation were still able to negotiate a deal that forced Syria to hand over its chemical weapons arsenal. He disparaged North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and seemed uninterested in promoting human rights.

“He doesn’t have a strategic vision about foreign policy…” “Which makes the emotional explanation for his decision compelling”. The White House argues that Trump’s unilateral authority stems from Article II of the Constitution, which establishes the USA president as commander and chief of US military forces.

Trump has taken out fighter jets and runways from an air force that would otherwise have been bombing IS.

“Anything less is an abdication of our responsibility”, she said. The slaughter, which claimed more than 80 lives, was an “affront to humanity”, Trump had said on Wednesday.

At his regular, end-of-session Capitol briefing on Friday, just before the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell took a victory lap for himself.

Trump promised a radical departure from traditional foreign policy. Where may Mr. Trump be heading? “It’s never been part of his character and it’s never going to be”.

President Donald Trump said the strikes targeted the airbase from which the chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun in the north of Syria was launched on Tuesday.

“This is a President obsessed with toughness”. Our nation has a very long and painful history of civil liberties and human rights being jeopardized and violated during war. I’m going to look tough, ‘ ” said Dr. Adams, professor of US foreign policy at American University in Washington. What did we hope Russian Federation would do?

Given the outcome of the election, I’d say this move was not only far more consequential than stealing a Supreme Court seat from Democrats, it was the key to the theft itself. “It drives foreign leaders insane”.

“Whether this leads Syria to escalate things, whether this leads Russian Federation to escalate things, we just don’t know”, Hartig said.

Russia’s military said the strike had an “extremely low” military impact, with fewer than half of the 59 missiles reaching the air base. The Kremlin called the missile strikes “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of global rights”. “The Syrian government doesn’t have any interest in breaching the chemical weapons agreement with the global community, as this would affect the rejoining and acceptance of Syria by the UN”, Sakr said.