USS Harry Truman strike group armed with cruise missiles being deployed in Med ready to strike Syria?
AN US aircraft carrier is on its way and a guided missile destroyer is reportedly lurking off the coast of Syria amid calls for revenge for Assad's poison gas attack.
It comes as Donald Trump renewed his vow to decide on his military response to the outrage which left scores dead “probably by the end of today".
The US President said there was little question Syria was responsible for the apparent weekend chemical attack, although the government of President Bashar Assad denies it and its backer Russia claims it is "fake news".
Trump said: "To me there's not much of a doubt, but the generals will figure it out."
As he spoke a US Navy destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, was underway in the eastern Mediterranean after completing a port call in Cyprus.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, the weapon of choice in attack one year ago on an airfield in Syria following an alleged sarin gas attack on civilians.
Meanwhile USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier strike group was on its way to the Syrian coast armed with cruise missiles and an array of warplanes.
Yet it emerged today Russia has started jamming US military drones operating over Syria seriously affecting America's ability to strike targets.
And to add to the allies woes Russia has deployed its accurate S-400 missile air defence systems in key locations.
There have also been unconfirmed reports of the systems being deployed around the Assad’s presidential palace in Damascus.
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Britain is widely expected to take part in airstrikes with Tornado bomber based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus likely to be used.
Turkish media earlier reported an unusually high level of activity at the base but this has yet to be verified.
Prime Minister Theresa May agreed in telephone conversations with US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron that the international community "needed to respond" following reports of a suspected chemical attack in Syria, Downing Street said.
It comes after the UN Secretary General today called for international investigators to have unfettered access after an alleged chemical attack in Syria.
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