With each passing day, it seems that there is news about another school shooting, bombing or terrorist attack that takes place around the world. First it was Aleppo and now it is Khan Sheikhoun, the latest chemical attack and bombing location in the northern part of Syria.

On April 4, a chemical attack struck the rebel held town of Khan Sheikhoun while many citizens were still fast asleep, killing at least 86 people, 27 of them being children. Many survivors of the attack were being treated at a nearby hospital and only hours after the attack, several more were injured when another airstrike took place near the hospital. Due to the airstrike, the hospital lost power and was knocked out of service.

The U.S. and U.K. are blaming Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime for the horrific attack, which is one of the deadliest of its kind since the civil war in Syria started roughly six years ago. Syria has denied its use of chemical weapons, but survivors who had been treated at a hospital in Turkey recall chemical bombs being dropped from the air. The World Health Organization said victims displayed the signs of exposure to nerve agents, possibly sarin gas.

In an act of retaliation to the chemical gas attack by the Assad regime, President Trump ordered an airstrike on April 6. The orders included having U.S. warships launch 59 tomahawk cruise missiles at the airbase where the warplanes who carried out the chemical bombing were being held. Nine civilians were killed by the U.S. airstrike, four of them being children, and several others were injured.

This decision marked a dramatic shift in Trump’s stance on whether or not the U.S. should take military action on the Syrian regime. The change mostly came from the horrific nature of the attack, which has caused outcries by many, calling for justice in Syria.