Syria strikes violated international law - are the rules of foreign intervention changing?
(WorldNews Denmark)

When Donald Trump ordered air strikes against Syria in April 2017, it was the only one of his actions that earned him widespread praise at home and abroad. Remarkably, this happened regardless of the fact that the strikes were clearly illegal under international law. I argued at the time that we might be seeing the emergence of a new norm that justifies the use of force to counter the deployment of chemical weapons against civilians - and the latest Western strikes on Syrian government targets have provided new evidence that this is indeed happening. Despite having no justification under existing international law, last weekend´s strikes were welcomed by the EU and NATO as well as a number...