Three days after an attack allegedly carried out with chemical weapons and shocked the world, the US bombed an air base in Syria, going to a unilateral action that strongly denounced by Russia, the main ally of the Syrian regime.
Moscow sought to urgently convene the UN Security Council, a few hours after the first US military action AGAINST the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The order for the attack yesterday evening gave President Donald Trump, who nevertheless has always recommended against any direct intervention in Syria.
At around 3:40 (local time at Greece) 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from two US warships in the Mediterranean against the air base of Al-Sairat, located near the city of Homs, the Syrian center.
This "blatant attack" caused "six dead, injured and considerable material damage," he said a few hours later the Syrian army, without specifying whether the victims were soldiers or civilians.
The official Syrian news agency SANA announced the death of nine civilians in surrounding villages.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on his part that seven soldiers were killed and that the airport "almost completely destroyed: the planes, the racetrack, the fuel storage and air defense building pulverized."
Nine aircraft were destroyed, claimed the Russian television transmitting images of hangars and a runway which brought minor damage.
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