WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening that he had ordered precision strikes on Syria targeting President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons capabilities.
Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said the strikes were carried out at 9 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time and targeted a scientific research center in the greater Damascus area, a chemical-weapons storage facility near the western Syrian city of Homs, and a storage facility and command post in the vicinity.
