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Warship Ruse and New Stealth Missiles: How the U.S. and Allies Attacked Syria

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  • Trump weighed five proposed target plans, person familiar says
  • ‘No Syrian weapon had any effect’ on strike, Pentagon says
Control Risks' Chamorro Says Syria Attack Was Message to Russia

President Donald Trump’s outrage over another apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was clear. And for the second time in his presidency, the U.S. commander-in-chief demanded retaliation.

As images of sick or dying children flooded global media all week, the U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Winston Churchill churned toward the Mediterranean to join a flotilla of allied warships, including another U.S. destroyer, the USS Donald Cook.