In pics | Haunting images emerge from Syrian chemical attack, US retaliates with massive military strike

A man carries the body of a dead child, after a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria.

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A still image taken from a video posted to a social media website on April 4, 2017, shows a boy lying on the ground said to be in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria.

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People lying on the ground  after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in rebel-held Idlib, Syria. 

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The suspected chemical attack killed dozens of people on Tuesday, Syrian opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war.

This photo shows Syrian doctors treating a child following a suspected chemical attack, at a makeshift hospital, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria.

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Men stand near the bodies of those who died in a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria.

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A crater is seen at the site of an air strike.

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A civil defence member breathes through an oxygen mask.

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An unconscious Syrian child receives treatment at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province.

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In this image released by the US Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea on April 7, 2017.  

US President Donald Trump ordered a massive military strike on a Syrian air base on Thursday in retaliation for a "barbaric" chemical attack he blamed on President Bashar al-Assad. The missiles were fired from the USS Porter and the USS Ross, which belong to the US Navy's Sixth Fleet and are located in the eastern Mediterranean.

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