US President Donald Trump amended on Thursday an earlier warning of a swift military strike against Syria in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack on civilians, saying it could be very soon or not so soon at all .
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"Never said when an attack on Syria would take place," Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump had vowed to take swift and decisive action against Syria since reports of a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people.
Damascus has denied responsibility for the incident that has widened a rift between the West and Moscow, which backs Syria's government.
On Wednesday, even though Trump had previously said he would not "broadcast" his moves in Syria, he said in a post on Twitter that missiles "will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'"
However, US Defense Secretary James Mattis struck a more cautious tone later on Wednesday, saying that Washington was still assessing intelligence on the suspected toxic gas attack.
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