AP reports the president announced that the US has “launched precision strikes” targeting "chemical weapons program" in Syria, a “combined operation with France and the United Kingdom."

"Trump says that last Saturday, Syrian President Bashar Assad deployed chemical weapons in what was a 'significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use by that very terrible regime.'

BREAKING: President Trump: U.S. strikes on Syria, launched in concert with British, French allies, are "now underway."

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2018