The US, France and Britain unleashed air strikes on Syria early on Saturday targeting the Damascus regime in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack on civilians. Western powers said the strikes were necessary to halt the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria“The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the brutal American-British-French aggression against Syria, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international law,” the foreign ministry said. This will reduce the regime’s ability to further attack the people of Syria with chemical weapons,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement. Russia this week vetoed a US proposal to set up such a panel on the suspected attack in Syria.

Source: Hindustan Times April 14, 2018 09:07 UTC