Northern Ireland UKIP councillor Henry Reilly is unrepentant about his support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, who many blame for using chemical weapons on 21 August, killing 1,300 people.
Seven million Syrians have been displaced and more than 100,000 killed in the ongoing civil war, nearly one third of the country’s population, with the international community still divided on how to reduce the bloodshed.
The chemical attack on the Ghouta region of Syria has forced the world to discuss intervention in Syria, but is intervention more about maintaining the international image of the US and France?
Over the weekend, the U.S. moved one of its Mediterranean warships closer to the Syrian coastline as administration sources said President Barack Obama was seriously considering a strike on regime targets.
The reports of a chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus has caused condemnation from around the world, with Russia backing a UN investigation into the claims and US President Obama calling it a “grave concern”.