G7 endorses US-led air strikes in Syria

Her comments follow allegations by the head of an global chemical weapons watchdog on Monday that Syrian and Russian officials cited “pending security issues” to keep independent inspectors from reaching the site of the suspected April 7 chemical attack.

She said: “We’re not going to get into any other options that were on the table”.

“The United Nations has provided the necessary clearances for the OPCW team to go about its work in Douma“.

Haley said the United States would not pull its troops out of Syria until its goals were accomplished.

Even though the OPCW team was not allowed in, the Syrian authorities organised a tour of the town for the foreign press, including AFP.

Syrian government forces retook Douma last week, gaining full control over the former rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, Russian military officials announced at the time.

· British Prime Minister May cited reports that said the Syrian government had used barrel bombs to deliver the chemical weapons.

“I can guarantee that Russian Federation has not tempered with the site”, Lavrov told BBC in an interview. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the British accusation that Russian Federation was to blame for holding up the inspections was “groundless”.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump defended his use of the term “mission accomplished” to describe the operation in Syria. This time, after a suspected chemical attack in Douma near Damascus, the United Kingdom and France joined hands with the U.S.to punish Mr. Assad’s regime.

Over the last 25 years, after the USA became the sole global power with the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been efforts to develop the right to protect, essentially giving authority for attacking a regime to stop genocidal attacks on its people.

President Donald Trump ordered the military strike early Saturday in coordination with France and Britain. They insisted it was executed with “the sole objective to prevent further use of chemical weapons and chemical substances as weapons by the Syrian regime to kill its own people”.

As world leaders and their representatives set out their views on the strikes, hundreds of people in Turkey, Iraq, India and Cyprus protested against the mission.

On Monday, Syrians gathered in the capital’s largest square – Umayyad Square – ahead of the anniversary of the departure of French troops from the country in 1946.

Protesters waved Syrian flags at the demonstration, dubbed a “salute to the achievements of the Arab Syrian Army”, setting off fireworks and celebratory gunfire.

“God, Syria and Bashar – nothing more“, protesters chanted. Syria poses no threat to the US or its allies. According to administration officials, it is “unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russian Federation”.

Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the UN, said treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin will announce on Monday further economic sanctions on Russian Federation for supporting the Syrian regime.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the military strikes violated the U.N. Charter and that if they continue, “it will inevitably entail chaos in worldwide relations”, according to a Kremlin statement on Sunday.

The Russian military also claimed Syria shot down the cruise missiles that were launched at a Syrian air base. Demonstrators say they are against Trump’s administration and believe this is a war of aggression.

British Prime Minister Theresa May says the need to act quickly and protect what she calls “operational security” led her to decide to join the allied strikes in Syria without a prior vote in Parliament.

Addressing told the council, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United States was confident that the military strikes had crippled Syria’s chemical weapons programme.