US President Donald Trump said he was nearing a decision about whether to launch a strike on Syria in response to an alleged chemical attack he described as “atrocious” and “horrible”.
“We’ll be making that decision very quickly, probably by the end of today,” Mr Trump said Monday at the start of a cabinet meeting, after earlier promising a decision in 24 to 48 hours. “We cannot allow atrocities like that.”
There was mounting international condemnation following the alleged attack on the town of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, which killed 48 people and injured hundreds more, according to the Syrian American Medical Society, a medical relief organisation. It said victims were suffering symptoms consistent with exposure to both chlorine gas and a nerve agent.