President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will not launch a full-scale war in Syria, seeking to ease concerns that last week’s missile strike could escalate American involvement in that country’s civil war.

Trump declares to Fox News: "We are not going into Syria." https://t.co/fPTi6EK3Aj pic.twitter.com/wPxtpXlnXR — Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) April 11, 2017

“We’re not going into Syria,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network.

Trump suggested his decision last week to launch 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian air base used in a sarin gas attack was purely intended to curb Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his own people.

“But when I see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons – which they agreed not to use under the Obama administration, but they violated it,” the president said.

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