On Friday night, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom
launched strikes against military targets in Syria to punish Bashar
al-Assad’s regime for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus last
weekend. The United States and its allies have been bombing Syria since
2014 as part of a military campaign against the Islamic State, but
Friday’s attack marked only the second instance since 2011 when the
United States directly targeted the Syrian government. President Donald
Trump ordered both U.S. strikes against Assad without congressional
authorization. Two books on Syria, based on years of in-country
reporting, capture a key period in modern Syrian history, beginning with
the 2011 revolution that morphed into a complex, multi-pronged,
international war.
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