After 24 hours of diplomatic setbacks, the US and the UK presented their case for a punitive strike on the Assad regime in Syria in a bid to justify retaliation over the use of chemical weapons.
Ahead of the release of a US assessment tying Bashar al-Assad’s military to the chemical attack that killed more than 300 people in eastern Damascus, the British government released an intelligence briefing which said it was “highly likely” the regime was responsible.
In a separate document government lawyers in London said there was a humanitarian case for the UK to intervene legally in Syria without a UN Security Council resolution.
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