Syria
“I would be very surprised indeed if this was to be a precursor for large-scale American attacks on the Syrian regime,” said Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) military think-tank in London. “There's a clear message here that if Assad were to use chemical weapons again that he could expect further attacks on those air force capabilities. But it doesn't feel to me as though this is being expanded beyond the issue of chemical weapons.”
