Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says a US missile strike on a Syrian air base was a swift response to a shocking war crime.
US President Donald Trump says he ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched, declaring he acted in America’s “national security interest” against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
It’s been three days since toxic gas engulfed the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun and it remains a place of ghostly desolation, its streets empty with tents packed with weeping survivors.
The death toll stands at 86 after a suspected chemical attack in north-western Syria, according to reports from an independent monitor.