April 19, 2018 | Quoted by Katrina Manson, Courtney Weaver, and Sam Fleming - Financial Times
US, Britain and France launch air strikes against Syria
The US, Britain and France on Friday night launched more than 100 missiles against Syrian targets in a strike against the Assad regime’s chemical weapons capabilities, but stopped short of attacking Russian or Iranian targets in order to avoid triggering a broader conflict.
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Behnam Ben Taleblu, at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the target selection showed that the Trump administration had decided against making a challenge to Iran’s influence in Syria, adding: “Assad’s conventional war machine has not been impeded by the strike.”
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