The Syrian president Bashar al-Assad who
this week ordered the use of chemical
weapons on innocent civilians in Syria,
killing hundreds, with kids left to gasp for
air while they died, has called U.S President
Donald Trump’s retaliatory attack on their
military base today ‘Irresponsible’ and
‘foolish’.
Assad, backed heavily by Russian president
Vladimir Putin and Iran, has turned his
country into a war like zone as he uses his
military to attack not just ‘terrorists’ but
also rebels against his government and
innocent civilians who live in rebel-held
areas.
“At 3.42am, the United States carried
out a flagrant aggression with
missiles against one of our airbases
in the central region, killing six
people and wounding a number of
others, and causing significant
damage,” Assad’s office said on
Friday afternoon.
“The airbase was almost completely
destroyed – the runway, the fuel tanks
and the air defences were all blown
to pieces,”
“What America did is nothing but
foolish and irresponsible behaviour,
which only reveals its short-
sightedness and political and military
blindness to reality,”
“An American missile also hit the
village of Al-Hamrat, which killed
four civilians including a child,”
“Another seven civilians were
wounded when a missile hit homes in
Al-Manzul, four kilometres (two and
a half miles) away from the Shayrat
air base,” it added.
Russia’s military on Friday said the Syrian
forces’ air defences will be boosted after the
nation earlier demanded an emergency UN
meeting.
“To protect Syria’s most sensitive
infrastructure, a complex of
measures will be implemented in the
near future to strengthen and
improve the effectiveness of the
Syrian armed forces’ air defence
system,” spokesman Igor
Konashenkov said.
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