Syrian soldiers inspect the wreckage of a building on April 14, 2018, after the United States, Britain and France launched strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack.
Now that the United States, the United Kingdom and France have carried out their punitive strike on Syria , it's time to assess the outcome. In response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons on April 7 in the city of Douma, a week later the three nations directed a barrage of 105 cruise missiles to three sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program. In the aftermath, the United States has sought to highlight how seriously the strike damaged Syria's chemical weapons program. But the reality is that the strike was limited in scope: Several chemical weapons sites (and their delivery infrastructure) remained unscathed and, by the United States' own admission, Damascus still has the ability to carry out chemical attacks. The United States and its allies opted for a limited strike for a couple of reasons .
