Another Strike on Syria Could Be Coming
President Trump blasted Vladimir Putin and “animal” Assad for the assault on Douma.
A suspected chemical-weapons attack in Douma, a rebel-controlled town in Eastern Ghouta, has killed dozens of people, an aid group said, blaming Syria’s Assad regime for the assault on the suburb of Damascus.
The Syrian regime dismissed the claim made by the aid group, the White Helmets, calling it a “” by Jaish al-Islam, the Islamist group that controls the town. Russia, which supports the Assad regime in the seven-year-long civil war, also the claim. The U.S. State Department in it was following the reports on Saturday’s attack, adding that Russia “ultimately bears responsibility” for the attack and its consequences. But perhaps the strongest words of criticism over the attack came from President Trump:
