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WAR IN SYRIA: America, Britain and France bomb Syria in overnight attack

The United States, Britain and France have launched air strikes in Syria overnight in response to a chemical attack by Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.

Prime Minister Theresa May said the missile strike was designed to minimise any civilian casualties and was not an attempt to change the Syrian government.

RAF fighter jets bombed targets in Syria and the MOD said it had “resulted in a successful attack”.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced the military action from the White House, saying the three allies had “marshalled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality.”As he spoke, explosions rocked Damascus.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May described the strike as “limited and targeted” and said she had authorised the British action after intelligence indicated Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government was responsible for an attack using chemical weapons in Douma last Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the strikes had been limited so far to Syria’s chemical weapons facilities.

With more than 100 missiles fired from ships and manned aircraft, the allies struck three of Syria’s main chemical weapons facilities, U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford said.

The targets included a Syrian centre in the greater Damascus area for the research, development, production and testing of chemical and biological weaponry as well as a chemical weapons storage facility near the city of Homs. A third target, also near Homs, contained both a chemical weapons equipment storage facility and a command post.

Mattis called the strikes a “one time shot,” but Trump raised the prospect of further strikes if Assad’s government again used chemical weapons.

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“We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents,” the U.S. president said in a televised address.

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