President Barack Obama will meet with his national security team Saturday to discuss the deteriorating situation in Syria, the White House announced in a statement.
Pressure has been mounting for the United States to intervene after images of an alleged chemical attack on civilians surfaced last week. Syrian rebels and activists that hundreds were killed in the attack outside Damascus last Wednesday, most of them women and children. Previously, the president had called the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict a “red line.”









