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US fires 60 cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase on Friday where poison gas attacks on Syrian civilians originated.
The United States fired cruise missiles on Friday at a Syrian airbase from which a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched on Tuesday that killed at least 70 people including women and children. "Even babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack," President Trump said of Tuesday's chemical weapons strike, which was blamed on Assad's forces. "No child of God should ever suffer such horror." U.S. officials said that the strike was a "one-off" intended to deter future chemical weapons attacks, and not an expansion of the U.S. role in the Syria war. Trump had also criticized Obama for setting a "red line" threatening force against Assad if he used chemical weapons, only to pull back from ordering air strikes in 2013 when Assad agreed to give up his chemical arsenal. Tuesday's attack was the first time since 2013 that Syria was accused of using sarin, a banned nerve agent it was meant to have given up under the U.N. enforced deal that persuaded Obama to call off air strikes four years ago. Video shown around the world this week depicted limp bodies and children choking while rescue workers hosed them down to try to wash off the poison gas. Tomahawk missiles were fired from the USS Porter and USS Ross around 0040 GMT, striking multiple targets including the airstrip, aircraft and fuel stations on the Shayrat Air Base, which the Pentagon says was used to store chemical weapons. [Thomson Reuters].