Updated April 07, 2017 13:56:16

President Donald Trump has unleashed dozens of cruise missiles against a Syrian airfield and says "all civilised nations" should join to end the bloodshed there.

The move marks a dramatic escalation in the country's civil war. Follow developments live in our blog.

Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, donald-trump, united-states, syrian-arab-republic

First posted April 07, 2017 11:48:18