America carried out a rocket attack on a Syrian military base

The US military fired dozens of cruise missiles on the Syrian air base in retaliation for the horrific chemical weapons attack in which blamed Syrian forces named president Bashar al-Assad, which killed about a hundred civilians. This is the first direct US attack on the forces of the Syrian government.

US military officials have told VOA that a total of 59 cruise missiles Tomahawk fired from the destroyer of the US Navy "USS Porter" and "USS Ross", who are stationed in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.An official of the US Navy announced that it has targeted Syrian military airport Shayrat in the western part of the country, since it is considered that there flew fighter planes who attacked with chemical weapons, which contained the nerve gas sarin.

State Secretary Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that "the United States have a high level of confidence that the attack was committed by warplanes regime Syrian named president Bashar al-Assad, and that is that when used poison gas sarin".In his address to the nation on television on Thursday evening, presiding, Donald Trump said that, since the Syrian President Assad on Tuesday launched a terrible attack, ordered military strikes targeted at the military airport in Syria, from where he came from chemical attack.

"Preventing the spread of deadly chemical weapons is a key interest of national security of the United States," added Trump.Speaking to reporters at his presidential residence in Florida, Trump called on "all civilized nations to join the United States in stopping the bloodshed in Syria."Air strikes on Syria were carried out while the president of Trump host to Chinese President Xi Jinping on his property in Florida.

Sudden attack represents a complete turnaround for President Trump who as a presidential candidate warned against the involvement of the United States in the seven-year civil war in Syria. However, the President was obviously shaken photographs and video footage of children who were killed in the attack by chemical weapons, saying it was "an insult to humanity, that crossed many lines."

• 7 Apr, 2017
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