Senior U.S. officials said today (February 1, 2018) that the Syrian government is developing new types of chemical weapons, and U.S. President Donald Trump is prepared to again order military action against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's forces if necessary to deter chemical attacks, according to the AOL News website.
Assad's government is believed to have kept part of its chemical weapons stockpiling despite a U.S.-Russian deal under which Damascus was supposed to have handed over all those weapons for destruction in 2014, the officials said.
Assad's forces have continued occasional use of chemical weapons in smaller amounts since a deadly attack last April that drew a U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base.
At that time, President Trump responded to a Syrian chemical attack that killed several civilians -- including women and children -- by ordering 59 missiles to be fired on a Syrian military base that destroyed several planes.
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