Dozens reported killed in suspected chemical attack on rebel bastion in Syria; Trump warns of 'big price to pay'
AMMAN, Jordan - Dozens of people were killed in an apparent poison gas attack on a suburb of Damascus as troops loyal to the government pressed an offensive to take back one of the last rebel-held bastions near the Syrian capital, opposition activists and aid groups said Sunday.
Doctors and first responders shared horrific images on social media of men, women and children they said had suffocated in their homes and in makeshift shelters during an intense bombardment Saturday night of the city of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region. Some of the videos and photographs showed piles of glassy-eyed bodies, many with white foam filling their mouths and nostrils.
President Donald Trump blamed the Syrian government and warned of a "big price to pay" in a series of tweets that also took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin for backing his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, whom Trump called "Animal Assad."
Trump's condemnation of what he termed a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" raised the prospect of U.S. military retaliation
