UPDATE (Video): US strikes Syria Airbase with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles
Idlib province and after Pentagon stated that Syria had violated its
obligations under the chemical weapons agreement
reportedly killed after the suspected poison gas attack on its citizens in town
of Khan Sheikhoun area of Idlib province
civilians, the United States has pounce on the Syria government with almost
five dozens of cruise missile strikes at a government-controlled airbase.
missiles hit at Shayrat airfield in Homs province at about 3:45am on Friday
morning, April, 7, 2017, from where it was believed that the Syrian jets that released
the chemicals on a town control by the rebel, in Idlib province had taken off.
number of military targets, as an ‘act of aggression.’
in the Mediterranean Sea, targeting the base’s airstrips, control tower,
hangars and ammunition areas.
against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the six-year war.
the US strike, said it will end an age of “impunity” and this should
be just the start.
severely destroyed Syrian jets and support infrastructure and equipment at the airstrip.
children, were murdered after a suspected poison gas attack on the town of Khan
Sheikhoun, in Idlib province on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, according to the report
from a UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
public uprising, provoking the United Nations to pledge it would probe it as a war
crime incident.
unawareness in carrying out the raid. Russia, who is a main military ally of
the Assad administration, has accused the opposition, saying a government bombed
a building where rebels were manufacturing chemical weapons. However, the
rebels deny this claim.
violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention and ignored the
urging of the UN Security Council.”