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2017 Shayrat missile strike

Index 2017 Shayrat missile strike

In the morning of 7 April 2017, the United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea into Syria, aimed at Shayrat Airbase controlled by the Syrian government. [1]

203 relations: ABC News, Adam Schiff, Agence France-Presse, Al-Hamrat, Al-Masdar News, Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda, Aloysio Nunes, Ann Coulter, António Guterres, Anti-aircraft warfare, ARA News, Arab News, Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region, Bashar al-Assad, Bashar Jaafari, Ben Cardin, Ben Sasse, Bernie Sanders, Bill Nelson, Bloomberg L.P., Bob Corker, Bolivia, Bomb damage assessment, Boris Johnson, CBS News, China, Chris Coons, Chuck Schumer, Civilian, CNBC, CNN, Colin Powell, Cory Gardner, Council of Ministers (Syria), Cover-up, Cruise missile, Cyprus, Dan Coats, David Perdue, Death to America, Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, Democratic Union Party (Syria), Dick Durbin, Director of National Intelligence, Donald Trump, Eastern European Summer Time, Eastern Time Zone, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, ..., Enda Kenny, EROS (satellite), EURACTIV, Euronews, European Union, False flag, Fox News, Greenwich Mean Time, Group of Seven, H. R. McMaster, Hassan Rouhani, Homs Governorate, House of Saud, HuffPost, Hyperbole, Iran–Iraq War, Iraq War, Ireland, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ITV News, Jamestown Foundation, Jared Kushner, Jean Asselborn, Jeff Merkley, Jim Mattis, Joaquín Castro, John McCain, Joni Ernst, Juan Manuel Santos, Justin Amash, Kevin McCarthy (California politician), Khan Shaykhun, Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, Khmeimim Air Base, Kurdish National Council, Kurds in Syria, Libertarian Republican, Lindsey Graham, List of United States attacks on Syria during the Syrian Civil War, Lucca, Madrid, Mar-a-Lago, Marco Rubio, Mediterranean Sea, Michael Bennet, Mike Lee (American politician), Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary), Mitch McConnell, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Mohammed Emami-Kashani, Morning Consult, Moscow Time, Nancy Pelosi, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, National Security Advisor (United States), NATO, New York (magazine), Nicolás Maduro, Nikki Haley, North Korea and weapons of mass destruction, Novinky.cz, Nuclear warfare, Orrin Hatch, Palmyra, Paramount leader, Paul Ryan, Péter Szijjártó, Politico, President of Colombia, President of Iran, President of Russia, President of Syria, President of the United States, Price of oil, Rand Paul, Raqqa, Regime change, Rex Tillerson, Ron Paul, RT America, Runway, Russia–United States relations, Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich, Sacha Llorenty, Saddam Hussein, Salih Muslim, Satellite imagery, Sean Spicer, September 11 attacks, September 2016 Deir ez-Zor air raid, Sergey Lavrov, Seth Moulton, Shayrat, Shayrat Airbase, Shayrat and Tiyas airbase ambush, Sheikh Maqsood, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Sputnik (news agency), State media, Steny Hoyer, Steve Bannon, Steve Russell (politician), Surface-to-air missile, Syrian Air Force, Syrian Arab News Agency, Syrian Army, Syrian Civil War, Syrian News Channel, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Syrians, TASS, Tate Westbrook, Taxiway, Ted Cruz, Ted Lieu, Tehran, Telesur (TV channel), The Copenhagen Post, The Daily Caller, The Globe and Mail, The Independent, The Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, The New Zealand Herald, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Washington Post, Thom Tillis, Thomas Massie, Tim Kaine, Tom Cotton, Tomahawk (missile), Tulsi Gabbard, Twitter, United Nations Security Council, United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War, United States, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, United States Central Command, United States Congress, United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Intelligence Community, United States Secretary of State, United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War, UTC+03:00, White House Press Secretary, WJLA-TV, Xi Jinping, YouGov, 2003 invasion of Iraq, 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, 2017 Deir ez-Zor missile strike, 2017 Mosul airstrike, 2018 missile strikes against Syria. Expand index (153 more) »

ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Adam Schiff

Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is the U.S. Representative for.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Al-Hamrat

Al-Hamrat (الحمرات) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate.

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Al-Masdar News

Al-Masdar News (sometimes abbreviated AMN) (المصدر نيوز) is an online newspaper founded by Leith Abou Fadel.

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Al-Nusra Front

Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (جبهة النصرة.), known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (جبهة فتح الشام, transliteration: Jabhat Fataḥ al-Šām) after July 2016, and also described as al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, was a Salafist jihadist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda (القاعدة,, translation: "The Base", "The Foundation" or "The Fundament" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qæda and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988.

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Aloysio Nunes

Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho (born 5 April 1945 in São José do Rio Preto) is a Brazilian lawyer, politician, former senator, and Brazil's current Minister of Foreign Relations.

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Ann Coulter

Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and lawyer.

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António Guterres

António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres GCC GCL (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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Anti-aircraft warfare

Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action."AAP-6 They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons).

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ARA News

ARA News (آرانيوز) was an online news service focussed on the consequences of war in Syria and Iraq.

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Arab News

Arab News is an English-language daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia.

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Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region

The Arab Socialist Bath Party – Syria Region (حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي – قطر سوريا Hizb Al-Ba'ath Al-Arabi Al-Ishtiraki – Qutr Suriya), officially the Syrian Regional Branch (Syria being a "region" of the Arab nation in Ba'ath ideology), is a neo-Ba'athist organisation founded on 7 April 1947 by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar and followers of Zaki al-Arsuzi.

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Bashar al-Assad

Bashar Hafez al-Assad (بشار حافظ الأسد, Levantine pronunciation:;; born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who has been the 19th and current President of Syria since 17 July 2000.

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Bashar Jaafari

Bashar Jaafari, also Ja'afari, (بشار جعفري) (born April 14, 1956) is the current Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

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Ben Cardin

Benjamin Louis Cardin (born October 5, 1943) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Maryland, first elected to that seat in 2006.

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Ben Sasse

Benjamin Eric Sasse (Walton, Don. June 10, 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-22. born February 22, 1972) is an American politician of the Republican Party serving as the junior United States Senator from Nebraska since 2015.

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Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.

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Bill Nelson

Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Florida, a seat he was first elected to in 2000.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Bob Corker

Robert Phillips Corker Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Tennessee since 2007.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Bomb damage assessment

Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a stand-off weapon, most typically a bomb or air launched missile.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), best known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian and journalist serving as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chris Coons

Christopher Andrew Coons (born September 9, 1963) is the junior United States Senator from Delaware and a member of the Democratic Party.

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Chuck Schumer

Charles Ellis Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is an American politician of the Democratic Party serving as the senior United States Senator from New York, a seat he was first elected to in 1998.

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Civilian

A civilian is "a person who is not a member of the military or of a police or firefighting force".

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CNBC

CNBC is an American basic cable, internet and satellite business news television channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Colin Powell

Colin Luther Powell (born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.

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Cory Gardner

Cory Scott Gardner (born August 22, 1974) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Colorado since 2015.

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Council of Ministers (Syria)

The Cabinet of Syria is the chief executive body of the Syrian Arab Republic.

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Cover-up

A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information.

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Cruise missile

A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial targets that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at approximately constant speed.

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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Dan Coats

Daniel Ray Coats (born May 16, 1943) is an American politician and former diplomat serving as the fifth and current Director of National Intelligence since 2017 under the Trump Administration.

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David Perdue

David Alfred Perdue Jr. (born December 10, 1949) is an American businessman and politician.

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Death to America

Death to America (مرگ بر آمریکا Marg bar Āmrikā) is an anti-American political slogan and chant which has been in use in Iran since the inception of the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

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Democratic Federation of Northern Syria

The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), commonly known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northern Syria.

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Democratic Union Party (Syria)

The Democratic Union Party or PYD (Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat; translit; translit) is a Kurdish democratic confederalist political party established on 20 September 2003 in northern Syria.

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Dick Durbin

Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Illinois since 1997.

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Director of National Intelligence

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is the United States government Cabinet-level official—subject to the authority, direction, and control of the President of the United States—required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.

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Eastern European Summer Time

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Ed Markey

Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician of the Democratic Party serving as the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013.

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Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring, born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and academic serving as the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, a seat she was elected to in 2012.

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Enda Kenny

Enda Patrick Kenny (born 24 April 1951) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017, Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2017, Minister for Defence from May 2014 to July 2014 and 2016 to 2017, Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2011, Minister for Tourism and Trade from 1994 to 1997 and Minister of State for Youth Affairs from 1986 to 1987.

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EROS (satellite)

Earth Resources Observation Satellite (EROS) is a series of Israeli commercial Earth observation satellites, designed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), with optical payload supplied by El-Op.

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EURACTIV

EURACTIV is a European media platform specialising in the online publication of articles focusing on European policymaking, founded in 1999 by Christophe Leclercq.

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Euronews

Euronews is a multilingual news media service, headquartered in Lyon, France.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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False flag

A false flag is a covert operation designed to deceive; the deception creates the appearance of a particular party, group, or nation being responsible for some activity, disguising the actual source of responsibility.

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Fox News

Fox News (officially known as the Fox News Channel, commonly abbreviated to FNC) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

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Group of Seven

The Group of Seven (G7) is a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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H. R. McMaster

Herbert Raymond McMaster (born July 24, 1962) is a retired United States Army officer.

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Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani (حسن روحانی,, Standard Persian:; born Hassan Fereydoun (حسن فریدون) on 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician serving as the current and seventh President of Iran since 3 August 2013.

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Homs Governorate

Homs Governorate (مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria.

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House of Saud

The House of Saud (Āl Suʻūd) is the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Hyperbole

Hyperbole (ὑπερβολή, huperbolḗ, from ὑπέρ (hupér, "above") and βάλλω (bállō, "I throw")) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.

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Iran–Iraq War

The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq, beginning on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and ending on 20 August 1988, when Iran accepted the UN-brokered ceasefire.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (داعش dāʿish), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.

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ITV News

ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV.

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Jamestown Foundation

The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based institute for research and analysis, founded in 1984 as a platform to support Soviet defectors.

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Jared Kushner

Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American investor, real-estate developer, and newspaper publisher who is currently senior advisor to his father-in-law, Donald Trump, the President of the United States.

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Jean Asselborn

Jean Asselborn (born 27 April 1949) is a Luxembourgish politician who has served in the government of Luxembourg as Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2004.

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Jeff Merkley

Jeffrey Alan Merkley (born October 24, 1956) is an American politician and is the current junior United States Senator from Oregon, having served since January 3, 2009.

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Jim Mattis

James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is the current and 26th United States Secretary of Defense and former United States Marine Corps general who served as 11th Commander of United States Central Command during the Presidency of Barack Obama.

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Joaquín Castro

Joaquín Castro (born September 16, 1974) is an American Democratic politician who has served in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 20th congressional district since 2013.

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John McCain

John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona, a seat he was first elected to in 1986.

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Joni Ernst

Joni Kay Ernst (née Culver; July 1, 1970) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Iowa since 2015.

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Juan Manuel Santos

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician and the President of Colombia, in office since 2010.

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Justin Amash

Justin A. Amash (born April 18, 1980) is an American attorney and Republican member of Congress.

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Kevin McCarthy (California politician)

Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician serving as the House Majority Leader since 2014 and U.S. Representative for California's 23rd congressional district since 2013.

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Khan Shaykhun

Khan Shaykhun (خان شيخون), sometimes spelled Khan Sheikhoun or Khan Shikhoun, is a town in, and sub-district of, the Maarrat al-Nu'man District, within the southern Idlib Governorate of northwestern Syria.

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Khan Shaykhun chemical attack

The Khan Shaykhun chemical attack took place on 4 April 2017 on the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Governorate of Syria.

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Khmeimim Air Base

Khmeimim Air Base, also Hmeimim Air Base is a Syrian airbase currently operated by Russia, located south-east of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, Latakia Governorate, Syria.

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Kurdish National Council

The Kurdish National Council (KNC,, ENKS; المجلس الوطني الكوردي Al-Majlis Al-Watani Al-Kurdi) is a Syrian Kurdish political organization funded by the President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani and Turkey in the Syrian Civil War.

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Kurds in Syria

Kurds in Syria refers to people born in or residing in Syria who are of Kurdish origin.

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Libertarian Republican

A libertarian Republican is a politician or Republican party member who has advocated libertarian policies while typically voting for and being involved with the United States Republican Party.

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Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American politician and retired U.S. Air Force colonel serving as the senior United States Senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003.

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List of United States attacks on Syria during the Syrian Civil War

The following is a list of United States′s attacks on forces belonging to, or allied with the Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War.

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Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio, in a fertile plain near the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Mar-a-Lago

Mar-a-Lago is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.

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Marco Rubio

Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is an American politician, attorney, and the junior United States Senator for Florida.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Michael Bennet

Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Colorado, a seat he has held since 2009.

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Mike Lee (American politician)

Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American politician, author, and attorney who is the junior United States Senator from Utah.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (Magyarország külügyminisztere) is a member of the Hungarian cabinet and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Mitch McConnell

Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from Kentucky since 1985.

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Mohammad Javad Zarif

Mohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari (محمدجواد ظریف خونساری;; born 7 January 1960) is an Iranian career diplomat, academic and current Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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Mohammed Emami-Kashani

Ayatollah Mohammed Emami-Kashani (born in Bid Aabaad, Isfahan, in 1931) is a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Morning Consult

Morning Consult is a privately held technology and media company established in 2013.

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Moscow Time

Moscow Time (Моско́вское вре́мя) is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg.

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Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives since 2011, representing most of San Francisco, California.

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National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces

The National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces (الائتلاف الوطني لقوى الثورة والمعارضة السورية), commonly named the Syrian National Coalition (الائتلاف الوطني السوري), is a coalition of opposition groups in the Syrian Civil War that was founded in Doha, Qatar, in November 2012.

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National Security Advisor (United States)

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (NSA) or at times informally termed the NSC Advisor,The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1.

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NATO

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Palmyra

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President of Russia

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President of Syria

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Rex Tillerson

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Ron Paul

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Sacha Llorenty

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Saddam Hussein

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Salih Muslim

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September 11 attacks

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September 2016 Deir ez-Zor air raid

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Shayrat Airbase

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State media

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Steny Hoyer

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Steve Bannon

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Steve Russell (politician)

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Syrian Air Force

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Syrian Arab News Agency

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Syrian Army

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Syrian Civil War

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Syrian News Channel

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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

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Syrians

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TASS

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Tate Westbrook

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Taxiway

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Ted Cruz

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Ted Lieu

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Tehran

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Telesur (TV channel)

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The Copenhagen Post

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The Daily Caller

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The Globe and Mail

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Jerusalem Post

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The New York Times

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The New Zealand Herald

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The Salt Lake Tribune

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The Washington Post

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Tim Kaine

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Twitter

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United Nations Security Council

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United States

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations

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United States Central Command

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United States Congress

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United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

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United States Intelligence Community

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United States Secretary of State

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UTC+03:00

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White House Press Secretary

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WJLA-TV

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Xi Jinping

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YouGov

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2003 invasion of Iraq

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2016 Nobel Peace Prize

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2017 Deir ez-Zor missile strike

On 18 June 2017, under Operation Laylat al-Qadr (عملیات لیلةالقدر), Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) fired six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missile from domestic bases targeting ISIL forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier that month.

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2017 Mosul airstrike

The 2017 Mosul airstrike, also referred to as the 2017 Mosul massacre was an American-led bombing of the al-Aghawat al-Jadidah neighborhood in western Mosul on 17 March 2017 that killed hundreds of civilians.

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2018 missile strikes against Syria

On 14 April 2018, beginning at 04:00 Syrian time (UTC+3), the United States, France, and the United Kingdom carried out a series of military strikes involving aircraft and ship-based missiles against multiple government sites in Syria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike

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