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The
United States has launched 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles against Syrian
government targets in retaliation for what the Trump administration
charges was a Syrian government chemical weapons attack that killed
scores of civilians, a US official says.
The
targets hit from US ships in the Mediterranean Sea included the air
base in the central city of Homs from which the Syrian aircraft
staged Tuesday's chemical weapons attack, the US official told
Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Trump
said the strike on Syria was in the "vital national
security interest" of the United States.
He
called on "civilised nations" to join US in "seeking
to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria".
Syrian
state TV said "American aggression targets Syrian military
targets with a number of missiles".
The
poison gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib
province on Tuesday killed at least 86 people, including 27 children,
according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Turkey
said samples from victims of Tuesday's attack indicate they
were exposed
to sarin,
a highly toxic nerve agent.
"I
think what happened in Syria is a disgrace to humanity and he's
there, and I guess he's running things, so something should happen,"
Trump had told reporters earlier
on Thursday.
At
the time of the US raid, Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago estate in
Florida, where he is holding two days of meetings with Chinese
President Xi Jinping.copy http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
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