Syria’s Bashar al-Assad attacked his own people at least 15 times with lethal chemical weapons since 2012, Britain revealed yesterday in laying out the case against his bloodstained regime.
There is documented evidence of other poison-gas attacks, but the proof isn’t as overwhelming as it was with last week’s ghastly assault on the outskirts of Damascus, which killed hundreds of men, women and children, Prime Minister David Cameron’s government said.
The White House briefed key congressional leaders on potential US war plans last night, as other developments in the swiftly changing Syrian crisis unfolded. . .