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U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Thursday, saying that he ordered a targeted military strike against an airfield in Syria that was used to launch a deadly chemical attack earlier this week.
U.S. Navy warships in the Mediterranean Sea launched an estimated 50 Tomahawk missiles against the Syrian airbase in Homs controlled by President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters quoted a U.S. official as saying.
The airstrikes were carried out at 8:45 p.m. EDT.
Trump ordered the strikes against Syria just a day after speaking out against Assad and this week’s chemical attack in Syria, which killed at least 70 people, the majority of whom were children.
By Anna GolubovaFor Kitco News
TAP – victims lying in snowflake position – usual sign of false attack. use of dummies. ‘medical’ staff carrying cameras i.e. journalists picturing other journalists. what a load of nonsense.
This was Syria’s response to threatened US aggression in 2013
A senior Syrian official has warned that Israel will “come under fire” should the United states pursue any military aggression against the Assad regime.
As reported by the Israeli news site Ynet, Halef al-Muftah, a leading member of the Syrian Ba’ath national council, and a former aide to the Syrian media minister said today that the Syrian government has “strategic weapons aimed at Israel.”
Making the comments on an American Arabic radio station, Muftah added that Damascus views Israel as being “behind the aggression” and therefore will be retaliated against should the US strike Syria.
The official also stated that the Syrian government would not be beholden to threats from the US, and added “If the US or Israel err through aggression and exploit the chemical issue, the region will go up in endless flames, affecting not only the area’s security, but the world’s.”
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