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Late Thursday night, the United States fired over 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a single Syrian airfield in retaliation to a deadly chemical weapons attack that occurred earlier in the week. The airfield is thought to be the one used by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to launch the gas attack that killed over 100 people, including women and children.
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Photos and videos of the U.S. attack’s aftermath are now being shared online, and the shocking images show the destruction inflicted upon the airfield.
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President Trump’s decision to take military action against the Assad regime comes after former President Barack Obama considered doing the same in 2013. The airstrike reportedly killed six people and was the first direct military action the United States has taken against the Syrian government since the country’s ongoing, six-year civil war began.
Thursday’s strikes were condemned by both the Syrian and Russian governments, with Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov calling them a “violation of the norms of international law” and Assad accusing the United States of “short-sightedness and political and military blindness to reality.”
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