NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 10, 2017

Q: The United States last week fired rockets at a Syrian government airbase that it said was used to launch a poison gas attack that killed at least 80 civilians in a town held by rebel forces. Many more were injured by the gas. Where is Syria?

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Q: Which of these nations supported the U.S. missile strike?

A. Iran

B. North Korea

C. Russia

D. Turkey

D. Turkish forces are backing Syrian rebels who want to overthrow the government of President Bashar Assad. Russia and Iran are the major supporters Assad regime who condmned the United States. The U.S. action also was seen as a possible warning to the hostile North Korean regime which called the strike "unforgivable.”

Q: There were concerns the missile strike could heighten dangers for several hundred U.S. troops in Syria and U.S. warplanes who are helping to fight . . .

A. Assad’s forces

B. Islamic State

C. Kurdish rebels

D. Russian troops

B. Defeating Islamic State forces in Syria and Iraq has been the main U.S. goal in the region’s confused fighting. More than a dozen nations have sent money, arms, troops and militias to the help the may different ethnic, religious and political groups fighting in Syria.

Q: Turkey, which called the missile strikes "a positive response to the Assad regime's war crimes," is Syria’s neighbor to the . . .

A. North

B. East

C. South

D. West

A. Turkey now hosts more than 2.5 million Syrians who fled north during six years of fighting in their country. In total, more than 4.8 million Syrians have left their country and another 6.5 million people who were forced from their homes remain in Syria. The estimates of the number of war dead vary from 250,000 to 470,000.

Q: Which of Syria’s other neighbors is struggling to cope with the second largest group of Syrian refugees?

A. Israel

B. Jordan

C. Lebanon

D. Iraq

C. Lebanon's economy has been stretched to a near breaking point by accommodating more than 1 million Syrian refugees. It has the greatest number of Syrian refugees in proportion to its population.