It's Business as Usual for Syria's Assad After U.S.-Led Attacks
- Analysts say strikes do not change dynamics of the conflict
- Attacks target chemical weapons-linked facilities, wound three
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Hours after a punishing U.S.-led missile strike, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, dressed in a dark suit and tie, strode through the gates of his palace to start his day as usual.
The televised image of Assad walking on gleaming marble floors toward his office, briefcase in hand, matched the rhetoric the Syrian government put out soon after the strike: the second U.S. attack in a year in response to suspected chemical weapons use has failed to rattle the regime and the president is in control.