President Trump condemned a suspected chemical weapons attack over the weekend on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma that reportedly took the lives of more than forty people, including children. The president blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime for unleashing what appears to have been deadly chlorine gas. The attack reportedly occurred in a region known as Eastern Ghouta where Syrian forces, backed by the Russian military and Iranian militias, have been mounting an offensive to retake several towns that have been rebel-occupied, including Douma. The alleged chemical attack in Douma, said to be the last remaining town in the region still in rebel hands, appeared to have come from one or more Syrian government aircraft. The alleged chemical attack would fit into the Syrian regime's larger pattern of exerting maximum pressure on the civilian population of rebel-held areas to the point of forcing a surrender.

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