A major move to remove al-Assad.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that steps are “underway” to organize an “international community effort” to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, a major policy shift triggered by the latest chemical weapons attack in the country’s ongoing civil war.
“With the acts that he has taken, it would seem that there would be no rule for him to govern the Syrian people,” Tillerson told reporters. “The process by which Assad would leave is something that I think requires and international community effort, both to first defeat ISIS within Syria, to stabilize the Syrian country to avoid further civil war, and then to work collectively with our partners around the world through a political process that would lead to Assad leaving.”
Sec Tillerson: Steps are underway to form an international coalition to remove Syrian dictator. #Breaking pic.twitter.com/Qc47Xa73UG
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This is a major move by Tillerson and the Trump administration.
