Britain’s foreign minister says London will study the “options” with its allies if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad again uses chemical weapons.
“There is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack,” Boris Johnson said on Sunday in an interview with the BBC
Johnson backed UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to join the United States and France to strike chemical weapons facilities in Syria on Saturday, saying it was the right thing to do to deter the further use of chemical weapons.
The Syrian government has rejected claims that it was behind the suspected chemical attack near the capital Damascus on April 7. The attack purportedly took place in the former militant-held town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta.
The American military described that attack as “precision strikes” on three targets in Syria…