The Guardian published a reports talks about the US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria .The report says that US has launched military strikes alongside UK and French forces aimed at reducing Syrian regime’s chemical weapons facilities in the wake of last weekend’s gas attack on the Damascus suburb of Douma.
Moments after President Donald Trump finished his address on Friday night, reports emerged of explosions in Damascus at about 2am BST. A Pentagon briefing later confirmed three sites were hit: two in Damascus and one in Homs. The sites were all regarded as linked to the storage, or testing, of chemical weapons. Syrian air defenses responded to the strikes but the US said it had suffered no losses in the initial airstrikes.
Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has described the strikes as an “act of aggression” and said the attack would worsen the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
Trump said the attack in Douma a week ago represented “a significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use” by the Assad regime, adding: “We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents.”
The British prime minister, Theresa May, said she authorised targeted strikes to “degrade the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons capability and deter their use”.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – a staunch ally of Bashar al-Assad – has condemned the US-led airstrikes, describing the leaders of France, the UK and the US as “criminals”.
Turkey has welcomed the strikes, describing the raids as an “appropriate response” to the use of chemical weapons in Douma last Saturday.
The US defense secretary said the US, UK and France had taken “decisive action” against Syria’s chemical weapon infrastructure and did not rule out further strikes.
The UK’s Ministry of Defense said four Tornado jets flew from Cyprus as part of the strikes on Homs.
French defense ministry sources have said France fired 12 missiles from fighter jets and frigates as part of the coordinated air and sea raids.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime posed an “immediate danger for the Syrian people and our collective security”.
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has called the airstrikes “legally questionable” and said May should have sought prior parliamentary approval.