WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump is open to authorizing additional strikes on Syria if the use of chemical weapons continues in the country, the White House said on Monday (April 10).
“The sight of people being gassed and blown away by barrel bombs ensures that if we see this kind of action again, we hold open the possibility of future action,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a briefing on Monday.
President Donald Trump ordered the cruise missile strike on Syria’s Shayrat air base last week in response to what Washington and its allies say was a poison gas attack by Syria’s military in which scores of civilians died.
It was the first time Washington has directly targeted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government in six years of civil war, and has pushed Trump’s administration into proclaiming that Washington still wants Assad eventually removed from power.
