UK cabinet agrees 'need for action' in Syria

International Desk: Cabinet ministers have agreed "on the need to take action" in Syria to "deter the further use of chemical weapons", Downing Street has said.

Ministers at a cabinet meeting said it was "highly likely" the Assad regime was responsible for a suspected chemical attack.

They agreed that the use of chemical weapons must not "go unchallenged".

But Transport Minister Jo Johnson later stressed: "There has been no decision to take military action at this point."

No details of UK involvement in any military action in Syria were mentioned in the Downing Street statement.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of "waiting for instructions" from US President Donald Trump and said military action was unlikely to solve the situation in Syria.

He said, "More bombing, more killing, more war will not save life. It will just take more lives and spawn the war elsewhere."

Medical sources say dozens of people were killed, including children, during the alleged toxic bombing of the formerly rebel-held town of Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta region.

Source: Agencies

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