Trump: US, France and UK strike Syrian chemical targets

By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON (AA) - The U.S., UK and France launched strikes Friday night targeting the Assad regime's chemical weapons capabilities, U.S. President Donald Trump announced.

"Today, the nations of Britain, France and the United States of America have marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality," Trump said in nationally-televised remarks.

Addressing Bashar al-Assad's principal allies, Iran and Russia, Trump asked: "what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?"

"The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep,” Trump said.