Utah leaders praise military strike on Syria

SALT LAKE CITY — Members of Utah's Republican congressional delegation Friday evening largely praised airstrikes in Syria designed to stop alleged chemical attacks on civilians there.The United States, France and Britain launched the strikes in reaction to what President Donald Trump said was Syrian President Bashar Assad's pattern of killing the innocent people of his country, leaving them "thrashing in pain and gasping for air." The Syrian government has denied using such banned weapons.