Trump Order Military Strikes on Syria Following Chemical Attacks

A United Nations security team that was supposed to give a green light for the inspectors to visit was shot at and subjected to a blast while touring the sites of the alleged attack in Douma on Tuesday. “The reconnaissance team returned to Damascus“.

Images of families slaughtered sparked global outrage and prompted Britain, the U.S. and France to launch missile strikes to destroy chemical weapons bases.

USA military strikes on Syria last week removed any moral obligation Russia had to withhold S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, according to RIA state news agency. He also claimed they are trying to clean up the evidence before the investigative team arrives.

They were initially blocked by the Syrian government and its ally, Russia, on Tuesday.

On a wall in the northern province of Idlib, graffiti artist Aziz al-Asmar had these words for Trump: “Your strike is like a rooster’s fart”.

“Russia and Syria must cooperate”.

Military analysts say the S-300 surface-to-air missile system would boost Russia’s ability to control airspace in Syria, where Moscow’s forces support the government of President Bashar al Assad, and could be aimed at deterring tougher USA action. The Associated Press met with residents who said they were overwhelmed by chlorine fumes on the night of the alleged attack, and lost their loved ones.

Douma, in the eastern Goutha district, was one of the last bastions near Damascus of rebels fighting to topple Assad, and the alleged attack took place amid a ferocious government offensive.

However, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that “Syrian government troops, in freeing the territory of Eastern Ghouta, found containers with chlorine, the most bad kind of chemical weapon, from Germany“.

Government analysis has identified Kremlin inspired accounts that have repeatedly posted messages to spread disinformation and distort the truth – described by Prime Minister Theresa May as part of a wider effort to undermine the worldwide system.

“The European Union will continue to consider further restrictive measures against Syria as long as the repression continues”, they said in a statement after their talks.

Russian Federation and the Syrian government have denied responsibility for the alleged attack, which took place during a government assault on the then rebel-held town.

“Mission Accomplished”, Trump tweeted last Saturday in the aftermath of the US and allied bombardment, vowing to repeat the attack if Syria dares to use chemical weapons again.

Pierce said it’s “very important” that the World Health Organisation, a United Nations body, “has found at least 500 cases of people reporting the symptoms of a toxic gas attack“.

That attack was launched in response to a suspected gas attack mounted on April 7 on Douma, near Damascus, in which more than 40 people were reported killed.

Medical charities operating in opposition-held parts of Syria have dismissed those statements as propaganda, given under duress now that government forces control the town.