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.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has ruled out a second vote on British involvement in military intervention in Syria.
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?
What benefits could military intervention bring to the Syrian conflict? Is the motivation for a punitive attack to make sure the US doesn’t lose credibility over Obama’s infamous red-line remark?