Syria war

The US launched dozen of missile strikes on Syria airbase on Thursday night after the US accused the Assad government of using a chemical attack on civilians, that killed more than 100 people.

Two US warship,  USS Ross and the USS Porter located in the Mediterranean Sea, launched 59 missiles at the Shayrat Airfield in Homs province in western Syria, the airfield supposedly used by the Syrian government to drop the chemical payload on its own citizen.

                

The Pentagon said that people were not targeted, and just the airbase, though no casualties has been reported. Aircraft and infrastructure were hit, including runway and gas fuel pump.

                 

While speaking on the missile strike, President Trump in his Florida Mar-a-Lago family compound in Palm beach said;

Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children,It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.

Two dozen members of congress were also said to have been briefed on the strike. Vice President Pence, who also had gone home on Thursday for dinner came back to the situation room to monitor the event.

The Syrian government while speaking on the strike, sees it  "as American aggression," while the biggest rebel group,  Ahrar Al Sham said it "welcomes any U.S. intervention through surgical strikes that would deter the Assad regime capabilities to kill civilians and shorten the suffering of our people."

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Not fewer than 85 people, including children, have been killed in a US led airstrike's targeting ISIS fighters in the Northern Syria. According to a report by a monitoring group, some eight families were all wiped out after the coalition forces attacked a village of Tokhar near Manbij on Tuesday (19 July) known to be controlled by ISIS.

The Turkey-based Syrian Institute for Justice has said the number of casualties could be more as rescuers are still pulling out bodies from the rubble, including children. Some of the photos revealed at the scene of the airstrike showed several half-buried children pulled out from the rubbles.

                        

The US military confirmed it conducted a military action in the area, and it is currently investigating civilian death. This is the deadliest civilian death since the coalition forces started their operation in Syria.

Another monitoring group, UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights believed the bombing was an error after the pilot mistook civilians for IS fighters. The group also reported that another 6 civilians (a woman with four of her children and an old man) were killed last Sunday in Manbij.

The coalition forces have been helping the Kurdish-led ground forces retake Manbij and surrounding villages after ISIS took over the location since 2014.

The forces  have had a hard time entering the city as IS fighters have been using snipers and mines to counter attack the forces, and while thousands of civilians have fled the city, the other civilians are used as human shield.

ISIS terrorists are trying to hold down Manbij as loosing the city would affect their supplies between the Turkish border and the capital of the self-declared Islamic State, Raqqa.

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