Papers report on Friday, April 7, 2017 on the previous evening's bombing of a Syrian air base in retaliation for the Assad government using chemical weapons. Richard B. Levine/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
As of last April 6, the ongoing non-international armed conflict in Syria – which since it began in 2011 has presumably reached a death toll of 400,000 people– has been ‘upgraded’ to an international armed conflict, after the United States attacked the Syrian regime by launching a barrage of missile strikes against a military airfield.
The attack was prompted by the alleged use of internationally banned chemical weapons by the Syrian government against its own population.
