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<i>The Atlantic </i> Politics & Policy Daily: The World Weighs In on Trump's Syria Strike

The president ordered an airstrike on a military airfield in Syria late Thursday.
Source: Alex Brandon / AP

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President Trump’s decision to order strikes against a Syrian air base late Thursday is : Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denounced the strike as “reckless” and “irresponsible,” and in a meeting of the UN Security Council, Vladimir Safronkov, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN, that the consequences of the strike could be “extremely serious.” Republican and Democratic lawmakers to the attack. The Senate Neil Gorsuch to the for the suspect who drove a truck into a department store in Stockholm, Sweden, killing at least four people and injuring 15 others in what Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven called a “terrorist attack.” The U.S. 98,000 jobs in March, significantly less than economists’ predictions.

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