With Monday’s night’s warning that Syria would pay a “heavy price” for another attack, the Trump administration has reinforced a red line over the use of chemical weapons by Damascus.
Two months after Donald Trump launched 59 cruise missiles at Syria in response to a gas attack that killed dozens of civilians, the White House on Monday night said the US had detected signs that the regime of Bashar al-Assad was planning another attack.
The Pentagon said the US had “observed activities at Shayrat air base that suggest possible intent by the Syrian regime to use chemical weapons again”. The US thinks the April attack originated from Shayrat — which was the target of its cruise missiles soon after.
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