Page 3 - Force Inside Syria News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Troops in the country. that would be a major escalation and that could have a far riskier scenario. >> all right. richard engel in london. richard, thanks for that. also, again, this is a developing situation here, again, question of whether this response could be imminent if there is going to be a response. we just heard from the president, himself, we're just getting this tape in aboard air force one. let's listen to what president trump had to say in the last few minutes. >> i think what assad did is terrible. i think what happens in syria is one of the truly egregious crimes and it shouldn...

Display of military might and now may be indications he's moving in that direction. >> well, there are already indications, right? we have american troops active in iraq and in syria. we're active in yemen. we're very active, actually, pushing against iranian power throughout the middle east and it would be interesting that after seeing the video of the nerve gas attack, donald trump said his opinion of assad has changed, maybe even his opinion of what america needs to do in syria has changed. if you go after assad, you're going after an iranian ally. i think we need to look at it in a broader...

That candidate trump was saying, hey, look, it is an ugly situation. you have rebel groups and isis. he said maybe imprecisely assad is helping to take care of isis. ruia iselping to take care of isis and ultimately that's a good thing for the united states. we've seen with this chemical attack the dark side of what assad is doing. in terms of the war against isis, has he meant anything positive? >> the short answer is not a lot. at the end of the day, it doesn't matter in any case. isis is in many respects has done what al qaeda had done. kind of reluctantly. instead of being essentially coor...

President xi about russia, about putin's responses. we were also told today, we had a telephone briefing on background, which means i can't identify the state department officials who briefed us but they told us rex tillerson when we go to moscow next week, his first official visit to russia, and likely there will be a meeting with president putin. it's not on the schedule but it seems to always happen when new secretariy ies of state go to moscow, that he will bring this up, the relationship with syria, the fact that they cannot continue to shield bashar al assad from the rep cushion ercu usi...

To assad in that situation there in syria. again, getting that from a u.s. official. there is is a lot more that we are covering on this. again, the president expected to meet with his defense secretary, a military response to the chemical attack in syria now under consideration, apparently. we're following this closely. much more to get to. please stay with us. wise man, i'm nervous about things i can't control... affecting my good credit score. i see you've planted an uncertainty tree. chop that thing down. the clarity you seek... lies within the creditwise app from capital one. creditwise h...