Sourced: Middle East Eye
US President Donald Trump condemned a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria and said that he would decide on a response, probably by the end of Monday.
The condemnation comes after Russia described allegations that the Syrian government had gassed its own people in Eastern Ghouta as a “provocation”, and said that a suspected Israeli attack on a Syrian air base was a “very dangerous development.”
Speaking at a cabinet meeting, Trump said he was talking to military leaders and would decide who was responsible for the attack – whether it was Russia, or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, or Iran, or all of them together.
Trump also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin may bear responsibility for the Syria attack.
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