US says Russia bears responsibility for Assad's gas attack – as it happened
We're going to shut our rolling insurance of the primary direct army moves by means of the USA in opposition to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in what Donald Trump described as necessary retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians, consisting of kids, earlier this week.
Fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles, launched earlier than dawn from warships in the eastern Mediterranean, threatened hopes for Russian-American rapprochement simply beforehand of the first foremost meeting between Washington, which has armed anti-Assad rebels, and Moscow, which has held Assad up in opposition to them.