Washington Rajab 27, 1439, Apr 13, 2018, SPA -- US President Donald Trump said late Friday he had ordered "precision strikes" on targets in Syria associated with its chemical weapons programme, in coordination with Britain and France. The strikes were ordered in response to last weekend's chemical attack on the town of Douma, outside Damascus, which Trump said was a "significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use" in the conflict there. He said he wanted to "establish a significant deterrent" against the use of chemical weapons and indicated that the US and its allies were prepared to keep up the strikes until Syria halted its use of them. --SPA 05:29 LOCAL TIME 02:29 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w667451