The Gulf Cooperation Council has expressed its support of the US air strikes on military targets in Syria in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town that killed scores of civilians.

The council’s secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani said in a statement that the Gulf the US strikes at the Shayrat airfield in Homs province will force the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to halt indiscriminate attacks on his civilians and breaking international law, including the use of banned chemical weapons, in doing so.

source: Alarabiya