US Senator Marco Rubio said he is concerned about the Trump administration’s strategy on Syria which he criticized as being “based on assumptions.”
“I’m a bit concerned about the outlines of the strategy as I understand it. I think it’s based on assumptions that, quite frankly, are not the right ones,” the Florida Republican said in an interview with ABC News.
The Syria strategy has come under spotlight after President Donald Trump ordered the US military to carry out a barrage of missile strikes against a Syrian airfield early on Friday.
Trump said the operation was in response to a suspected chemical attack, which Washington insisted was carried out by Syrian fighter jets operating from the base.
The Syrian government has strongly denied responsibility for the gas attack, and there is no evidence that it was behind the incident.
Rubio, a White House contender in the 2016 presidential election, said “there has to be a strategy outline…