Sentences with phrase «syrian airfield»
The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 2, Episode 4: John Heilemann interviews Republican Senator John McCain the morning after President Trump ordered airstrikes targeting a Syrian airfield.
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(CNN) Many of the congressional Republicans who are praising President Donald Trump's decision to strike a Syrian airfield were opposed to President Obama's request to approve a similar action against Syria in 2013.
Trump responded by launching Navy cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield.
Yet even after Trump was applauded by many, including McCain, for ordering strikes on a Syrian airfield last year in response to another poison attack, this time around there could be more calls for congressional involvement in any response.
SEOUL (Reuters)- North Korea said on Saturday U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were «an unforgivable act of aggression» that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was «the right choice a million times over.»
Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, gave a wide - ranging interview in New York where she called on the U.S. to carry out airstrikes on Syrian airfields in order to prevent more chemical attacks on its citizens, hours before that actually occurred.
Not exact matches
And Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said that the strike «has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat airfield, reducing the Syrian government's ability to deliver chemical weapons.»
Unlike the US's strike in April 2017, the latest one did not target Syrian jets or airfields — though the earlier attack apparently had little impact, as Syrian jets took off from the damaged airfield within 24 hours and reports of chemical warfare persisted.
Allies of al - Assad's regime rallied around the Syrian strongman and pledged to respond to US «aggression» after the Trump administration bombed a military airfield in retaliation for a poisonous gas attack.