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Nine Planes Destroyed in Attack 6 Saturday, April 8, 2017 Saturday, April 8, 2017 7 WorldWorld welcomeswelcomes ‘strong‘strong message’message’ President Donald Trump ordered missile strikes against an air base White House threatens further military action as Russia accuses the USin Syriaof in responseviolating to a suspected chemical int. weapons law attack on a rebel-held town Reyhanli Yesterday, the neighbourhood U.S. and Russian forces in the Middle East 04:40 local time (01:40 GMT): 59 Tomahawk cruise n the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun, hit in the attack remained empty, missiles fired from Navy destroyers USS Porter and site of an alleged chemical weapons with survivors decamping to other Whiteman Air Force Base: Missouri-based, RUSSIAN MILITARY ASSETS Syria was I ultra long-range B-2 stealth bombers Advanced S-300 and S-400 missile defence USS Ross strike multiple targets on Shayrat Air Base The UK government fully attack, residents still mourning their parts of the rebel-held town in the can reach Syria and Iran with help of systems deployed at Syria bases of Hmeimim, Latakia Nine planes supports the US action, squads of KC-135 and KC-10 and Tartus, and Iranian base of Hamadan, give dead yesterday welcomed US strikes as northwestern province of Idlib. tankers. B-2 can carry Turkey: Moscow control over much of Syria’s airspace warned which we believe was an a way to pressure Damascus. Across the town, there was little 16 JASSMs (Joint Air to U.S. military Damascus Tomahawk appropriate response to the Surface Standoff Missiles), assets at “God bless Trump,” said Abu Ali, in foot traffic or other movement, with and satellite-guided Incirlik Air yria’s armed forces were missile barbaric chemical weapons TURKEY his forties, hours after the US launched relatives of those who perished still “bunker busters” Base include warned about the threat attack launched by the F15 warplanes, Aircraft: Su-35 S destroyed Syrian regime a barrage of cruise missiles at a Syrian receiving condolences at halls. drones and U.S. Sukhoi Su-24, of American military action troops Su-34 strike hours before the US strike -A spokesman , government air base in the central Amidst the quiet and the sadness, B-2 bomber fighters, Su-35s Homs province. residents said they welcomed the based at Hmeimim on the Shayrat airbase Britain’s government S-300 GREECE SYRIA “God willing, these strikes will be American attacks. Hamadan Air Base: yesterday, a military source Crete: U.S. naval Long-range Russian in attack a clear warning to (President) Bashar “We consider these strikes not only TURKEY said. base at Souda Bay Tupolev-22M3 Raqqa IRAQ al-Assad, to tell him: Bashar, enough as a reaction, but a way to avenge the Izmir Air Base Russian bases: “We learned of the RAF Akrotiri: Hmeimim, Latakia killing and injustice against these blood of the martyrs who fell here in Typhoons and Tartus American threat and Moscow adding that a fire and some and Tornados taking Aleppo people,” he said. Khan Sheikhun,” said Haj Kassar, a part in Operation CYPRUS the expected military ine planes as well as explosions were ongoing. LIBYA CASPIAN The attack ordered by President merchant in his fifties. Shader against MEDITERRANEAN SYRIA SEA bombardment on Syrian munition and fuel depots “But not all equipment has Deir Canada so-called Islamic SEA N State territory,” a source said. were destroyed in the US strike been destroyed, there is some fully Donald Trump was the first direct “They’re above us, threatening us MEDITERRANEAN IRAN al-Zawr EGYPT sup- US military action against Syria’s again,” he said, as warplanes circled Guided missile destroyers IRAQ Kobani: Base in Kurdish- “We took precautions on Syria’s Shayrat airbase that was not impacted by the Hama ports overhead, carrying out at least one from U.S. Sixth fleet, each controlled Syria expanded in more than one military yesterday but the runway strike,” the correspondent said. government since the conflict began capable of launching up to to accept U.S. C-130s and the United six years ago. strike outside the town. 90 Tomahawk cruise missiles. C-17 airlifters point, including in the was intact, the Russian state “The landing strip... is Homs States’ lim- Russia has sent Admiral Grigorovich Iraq: 1,000 Apr 4, Khan Sheikhoun: It came after a devastating If confirmed, Khan Sheikhun would missile ship to Mediterranean U.S. troops in Erbil Air Base: U.S. Air Shayrat airbase. We moved channel Rossiya24 reported practically not impacted,” he Force C-17 airlifters, AH-64, ited and focused action to PERSIAN GULF Qayyara a number of airplanes from the scene. added. At least 88 civilians, suspected chemical weapons attack on be the second deadliest chemical attack Air Base CH-47F and UH-60 degrade the Assad regime’s U.S. Fifth Fleet headquartered in helicopters Khan Sheikhun on Tuesday that killed in the Syrian war, after a 2013 attack Bahrain. USS George H.W. Bush SAUDI towards other areas,” the “According to preliminary Footage showed the runway Palmyra including many children, ability to launch chemical Carrier Strike Group deployed ARABIA at least 86 people, among them 30 believed to have killed hundreds in THE Kuwait: official said, adding they information, nine Syrian intact but covered in debris, die in suspected nerve weapons attacks against RED SEA Jordan: Muwaffaq GULF 332d Air innocent civilians, includ- children, and left hundreds suffering. Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.(AFP) USS Bataan Amphibious Salti Air Base is U.S. Expeditionary were forewarned “hours” airplanes were destroyed,” its as well as two planes sitting in gas attack Group conducting theatre forward operating base Wing with F-16s before the strike. correspondent said in a report concrete hangars. MEDITERRANEAN SEA ing many children,” Security operations RED for Predator and Reaper and drones at -Justin Trudeau, SEA drones Ahmed Al Jaber He did not specify where from the base, broadcast hours The aircraft were 100km Air Base Prime Minister How cruise the planes had been moved after the strike at 0040 GMT apparently not heavily LEBANON 60 miles “I don’t think this is enough” missiles find YEMEN United Arab to or who had warned the yesterday. damaged while some other Damascus their way Emirates: to target RQ-4 Global Hawk spy Syrian government. Stores with ammunition and hangars were charred and here should be a bigger limited impact. They hit this airport, planes at Al Dhafra Government control as of April 4 deterrent to killing people then what?” 1 AGM-129 Air Base fuel were also targeted, he said, surrounded by rubble. “T TERCOM Range: Qatar: than this,” added resident Abu More than 320,000 people have (Terrain 3,700km Rebel control Kurdish contour 10,000 U.S. Khalil. “I don’t think this is enough.” been killed and over half the country matching): Radar troops, F-22 Raptors, B-52 US compares stored bombers, C-17 airlifters at JORDAN So-called Islamic State (Daesh) And others expressed hope that displaced since Syria’s conflict began. map reference Tomahawk Al Udeid Air Base strikes 1 Range: 2,500km show Washington could ground all Syrian “Part of the Syrian people has fled, data to actual Diego Garcia: government planes. part is buried underground, another terrain to 2 British island Shayrat Air Base: needed determine territory in Indian Ocean, resolve “In reality, Syrians don’t care part is out chasing humanitarian missile’s 6,120km from Houses two position. Damascus. against bar- about military strikes as much as aid,” said Abu Ali in Khan Sheikhun. Course corrections can Reports of squadrons of baric chemical attacks. EU they care about a no-fly zone for all “We just want Trump and his be made if necessary build-up of B-1 Lancer Syria’s Su-22 2 DSMAC (Digital Scene Matching will work with the US to aircraft,” said 27-year-old Hassan. administration to put an end to this and B-52 Area Correlation): Terminal guidance in target area ground attack end brutality in Syria,” bombers “In the end, these strikes have very farce.” compares stored image of target with actual target image aircraft -Donald Tusk, Sources: Stars and Stripes, 6th Fleet, U.S. Naval Institute, Stratfor, IHS Jane’s 360, Tass © GRAPHIC NEWS EU President 2km Moscow slams US ‘aggression’ 1.25 miles Assad Moscow of international norms, and under an Council to hold an extraordinary casualties in Iraq.” Sources: ISW, Wire agencies Picture: Google Earth © GRAPHIC NEWS bore oscow slammed the US strike invented pretext,” said a statement. meeting to discuss the situation,” the “The fact of destruction of all sole on a Syrian airbase yesterday as The Russian foreign ministry ministry said in a statement, calling chemical weapon stockpiles of the respon- “aggressionM against a sovereign state”, announced the suspension of a the strike “thoughtless.” Syrian armed forces was recorded by sibility for and suspended a bilateral agreement memorandum signed with the US in “The Syrian army does not have the (Organisation for the Prohibition “The United US threatens further the US strike to help avoid clashes in the skies over October 2015 which set up a hotline to any chemical weapon stockpiles,” of Chemical Weapons).” Syrian children wait to receive treatment following the suspected at a makeshift clinic following reported air chemical attack,” the war-torn country. avoid clashes between their air forces the Kremlin statement said, accusing “This step by Washington inflicts States will no “President Putin considers in Syrian airspace as they carried out Washington of trying to “divert considerable damage to US-Russia strikes by government forces in the rebel-held military action in Syria -President Francois town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Hollande and Chancellor American strikes on Syria aggression separate bombing campaigns.
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