home to know that he is not the first. he s the third to use the aumf for such a strike. leland: and congressmen on both sides on that issue. kevin, thanks. you bet. elizabeth: there s much more on the syrian air strikes tomorrow with an all new fox news sunday. chris wallace speaks with the ambassador to the u.n.s u.n. nikki haley. check your local listings for time and channel and tune into fox news for media buzz, diving into the media coverage of last night s strikes. leland: a live look at the united nations as we await the syrian ambassador, who will talk about that u.s.-led air strike after the break, as the world continues to react. and a closer look at bashar al-assad and his repeated use of chemical weapons against his own people. live to the border with syria and israel as they watched and waited last night. david lee miller, hi, david.
the turks fighting the kurds and we often try to segregate those in boxes and say we re focused on isis and trying to deter chemical weapons, but not dealing with the broader conflict. elizabeth: the u.s. got more involved than in 2013, to target isis, but on the rebels, is that right? that s right, following the rise of isis which sort of stormed across syria and iraq unexpectedly and then started capturing the u.s. citizens, beheading some of them. the u.s. in 2014 started gearing up and then at the same time, had its own coalition, but was arming rebels on the ground, with the goal of both fighting isis and maybe also fighting the assad regime. elizabeth: so when did we see an up-tick in interest from russia. what vacuum did they fell and why is there such an interest. russia came in in 2015 and 2016 when it looked like assad was gaining ground for a
report, saudi arabia is supporting the air strikes. a government official described what he called the horrid crimes because of the chemical attacks against the syrian people. a similar sentiment expressed by the government of bahrain and also qatar voicing its support of the u.s. air strikes and what s notable here, elizabeth, is that qatar allowed the united states to use a military base there to launch some of the strikes. the syrian government has responded, accusing the government of qatar of being, quote, what they described as shameful because of their allowing the u.s. to use their air base. so, that s the latest from the region. this now as the sun sets across the middle east. elizabeth: all right, david lee miller with the latest. leland. leland: with that we bring in christian witten formerly of the
meeting in two hours, 7:00 p.m., demascus time, with the authorities of demascus. and my government will, of course, provide every support to this delegation for it to carry out its mission successfully. now the facilities at the barsa research facility which was targeted by the per tide aggression was vefted twice, the building was inspected, the inspection was authorized by an official document that stipulated that well, it stated that syria had complied with its obligation vis-a-vis bcw and there were no chemical weapons in the building. now if the experts, handed to us