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Donald Trump could trigger a military conflict with Iran to sabotage Joe Biden’s bid to improve relations when he takes office in January, European intelligence officials fear.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad in 2017, but that his then-secretary of defense Jim Mattis opposed the operation.

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters) – U.S., British and French forces pounded Syria with air strikes early on Saturday in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.