On the night of April 7, the United States struck a missile strike at the airfield Shayrat in the Syrian province of Homs. Recall, the airfield is under the control of the Syrian military government. The attack was carried out in response to the possible use of chemical weapons in Idlib by the Syrian military.
The American side launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles. They were sent from US warships.
Reuters reported that four Syrian military men and one officer were killed as a result of a missile strike by US troops at the Shayrat airbase. According to the Syrian Monitoring Center for Human Rights, rocket fire finally destroyed the Syrian air force base.
The Ministry of Defense of Syria has not made any official statements about the dead and those who suffered from a missile attack by the United States at the moment.
President of the United States Donald Trump spoke after the attack with a statement calling on all civilized nations to jointly search for ways to stop massacres and bloodshed in Syria, the Associated Press said. He is confident of the correctness of the actions and believes that America should prevent the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.
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