US warships pummeled a government airbase with missiles on April 6, 2017, a day after more than 80 Syrians died in a ghastly chemical attack.


Photos surfaced of dead children, their eyes wide open. US President Donald Trump said he took action in response because that chemical attack "crossed a lot of lines for me."



A year after the US attacked Syria, what's changed?
By Susannah Cullinane and Holly Yan, CNN

Posted at 1615 GMT (0015 HKT) April 8, 2018

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(CNN) — One year ago the US launched its first military assault against the Syrian regime, a move some thought would be a game-changer in that country's gruesome civil war.
US warships pummeled a government airbase with missiles on April 6, 2017, a day after more than 80 Syrians died in a ghastly chemical attack.

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Photos surfaced of dead children, their eyes wide open. US President Donald Trump said he took action in response because that chemical attack "crossed a lot of lines for me."

Fast forward one year, and the horrors inside Syria haven't stopped. Children still fear death on a daily basis. And on Saturday, another suspected chemical attack killed dozens of people in the rebel-held city of Douma.

Trump said last month that after helping deal blows to ISIS, US troops will start coming home "very soon."
"We're knocking the hell out of ISIS," he said on March 29. "We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now."

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