{"id":70638,"date":"2017-04-06T22:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70638"},"modified":"2017-04-06T22:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:19:52","slug":"syria-war-us-launches-missile-strikes-following-chemical-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70638","title":{"rendered":"Syria war: US launches missile strikes following chemical &#8216;attack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_70639\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/95495095_gettyimages-1869884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70639\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/95495095_gettyimages-1869884.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/95495095_gettyimages-1869884.jpg 660w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/95495095_gettyimages-1869884-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cruise missiles were fired from US ships in the Mediterranean<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>The US has carried out a missile attack against targets in Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon official said about 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from Navy destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean at a Syrian air base.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said he ordered the strike against the base from where Tuesday&#8217;s attack was launched.<\/p>\n<p>He called on &#8220;all civilised nations&#8221; to help end the conflict in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of civilians died in the suspected nerve gas attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/world-us-canada-39521332\">Follow our live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US missiles hit the Shayrat airfield, from where Washington believes the chemical weapons attack was launched, one US official was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Syrian state TV said &#8220;American aggression&#8221; had targeted a Syrian military base with &#8220;a number of missiles&#8221; but gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad should have no role in a future Syria.<\/p>\n<p>His comments signaled a sudden shift in policy by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-39523654\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-39523654<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}