The United States has fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria in retaliation for this week's chemical weapons attack against civilians.
It was the first direct American assault on the Syrian Government, and Donald Trump's most dramatic military order since becoming president.
About 60 US Tomahawk missiles, fired from warships in the Mediterranean Sea, targeted an air base in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that American officials believe Syrian Government aircraft launched with a nerve agent, possibly sarin.
The targets at the Government-controlled Shayrat base, in central Syria, were an airstrip, aircraft and fuel stations, a US official said.
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