On Thursday evening, President Trump ordered a missile strike against an airfield in Syria reportedly responsible for the chemical gas attack on civilians on Tuesday. According to NBC News, at least 59 Tomahawk missiles were fired at the Ash Sha’irat airfield in Homs province from a ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
On Thursday afternoon, Russia warned the United States at the United Nations against a possible strike against Syria. Those comments came after the Trump administration’s revised assessment that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad needed to be ousted from power, and after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said there was “no doubt in our minds” that Assad was responsible for the gas attack, which killed at least 25 children, and told Russia to “consider carefully their continued support of the Assad regime.”
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