Four women delegates (3D, 1R) also represent American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands in the United States House of Representatives. The 20 (14D, 6R) women currently serving in the Senate are: 84 women from 31 states serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Airstrikes in Syria: Fallout Around the World. â  The United States fired 59 Tomahawk missiles on Thursday at an airfield in Syria from which officials said a chemical weapons attack originated this week. â  Russian forces, which were in the area, were given no more than 90 minutesâ notice of the attack.
The U.S. has been reluctant to send in troops on the ground in Syria and dispatched the first few dozen special forces soldiers to the region in October. Kurdish irregular forces, protecting the large ethnic minority group native to Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran, have been the main force fighting ISIS on the ground. With support from the U.S., Kurdish fighters retook the city of Sinjar, Iraq, from ISIS Friday.