Sentences with phrase «chemical attacks killed»

Hours before the US launched the missiles, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state, said the previous administration «should have been more willing to confront Assad» after previous chemical attacks killed thousands of innocent civilians.

The alleged attack comes almost exactly a year after a chemical attack killed dozens of people in the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.

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Later that year, Assad's forces killed nearly 1,500 people in a chemical - weapons attack.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers.

It came one week after an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad that killed at least 60 people.

Scores of people were killed in the chemical attack on a rebel - held town in northwestern Syria.

The US, France, and the UK carried out Friday's joint operation in response to a devastating chemical weapons attack in the rebel - controlled Damascus suburb of Douma, which killed dozens of people earlier this month.

Dozens were brutally killed and hundreds more were injured from a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Saturday.

The Western countries said the strikes were aimed at preventing more Syrian chemical weapons attacks after a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7 killed up to 75 people.

Syria agreed in 2013 to give up its chemical weapons after a nerve gas attack killed hundreds of people in Douma.

Tillerson responded by emphasizing the horror of the Assad regime's recent chemical weapons attack on civilians, which killed dozens last week.

Expectations for the West to take military action had been building since a suspected chemical - weapons attack killed civilians in Syria more than a week ago.

Her ability to cut through was on display on Monday this week, when Haley spoke at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council condemning the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 40 people and is believed to have been carried out by the government under President Bashar al - Assad, although it denies the allegations.

After claiming that reports of a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds was «absolutely baseless», President Bashar Assad's military bombed the same area in the suburbs of Damascus.

Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted there was no alternative to the air - strikes, following a chemical weapons attack in Douma last week that killed 75 people, including children.

His comments came after a missile strike at an air base in central Syria which killed 14 people on Monday and an alleged chemical attack in Douma which killed 70 people on Saturday.

Giving a statement at the White House, Mr Trump said the strikes were in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma last Saturday - which killed up to 75 people, including children - and would send a clear message to his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al - Assad.

But the children killed in chemical attacks in Syria were no less dead.

Beyond a red line, many, many lines,» Trump said when asked about Tuesday's chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed some 80 civilians and injured many more.

The United States blamed the Syrian government and its patrons, Russia and Iran, for one of the deadliest chemical weapons attacks in years in Syria, one that killed dozens of people in Idlib Province, including children, and sickened scores more.

Trump in a statement said a suspected chemical attack that killed dozens in a rebel - held Syrian district «can not be ignored by the civilized world.»

Trump said that he might seek to hold accountable not just Syria but its patrons in Russia and Iran for a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people outside Damascus over the weekend, a move that could widen a geopolitical conflict already roiling the Middle East.

Trump vowed «Animal Assad» would pay a «big price» for the apparent chemical weapons attack that killed dozens in Syria.

President Trump taunted Russia for backing a «Gas Killing Animal» and defied a warning from Moscow that it would knock down American missiles in Syria by declaring «they will be coming» in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack.

Rep. Claudia Tenney: «Earlier this week, the Assad regime launched a brutal chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed innocent men, woman and children.

Syria: From War to Dissolution With Help Of Media The Syrian opposition has accused the government of launching a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs that killed large numbers of civilians as they slept.

After all Iran is the country that suffered the loss of over 200 men, women and children who were blown out of the sky in international airspace; it is also Iran whose citizens and soldiers were killed by chemical weapons attacks.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D - NY) is standing behind President Donald Trump's missile strike of a Syrian air base last week that was believed to be used for a chemical weapons attack in which innocent Syrian citizens were killed.

The attack was in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons that killed dozens of civilians.

Obama and his allies are hurriedly working to muster popular approval for his plan of limited strikes in Syria after they say a chemical weapon attack killed more than a thousand people in August.

By Frank V. Vernuccio [On Friday night, US and European allies launched airstrikes against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President Trump sought to punish President Bashar al - Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus last weekend that killed more than 40 people.

Last week's chemical attack in Damascus killed hundreds of people, but thousands more received a non-lethal dose.

A team of U.N. inspectors has found «clear and convincing evidence» that a chemical weapons attack using the nerve agent sarin killed a large number of civilians near Damascus on 21 August.

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However, on the last day of the fund - flows week the Dow witnessed a 218 - point decline as Trump suggested he was considering a military strike in Syria after a suspected Assad - led chemical weapons attack in the rebel - held town of Douma over the weekend killed an estimated 43 civilians and injured hundreds more.

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Nauert said that the possible chemical attack comes a little more than a year after «Assad's forces conducted a sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhoun, which killed approximately 100 Syrians,» referring to Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

A chemical attack in eastern Ghouta in 2013 that was widely blamed on government forces killed hundreds of people, prompting the U.S. to threaten military action before later backing down.