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59 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched at Assad airbase in Syria called Sayrat![missile2]()
Officials said the Tomahawk strike lasted a "couple of minutes," and the strike was launched at 4:40 AM local time.![missile]()
Targets on airbase included, Syrian aircraft, aircraft storage, fuel depots, radar.![missile]()
FILE 2016: U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) is underway in the Mediterranean Sea.![Trump]()
President Trump addressed the media shortly after launching the strikes. He mentioned the chemical attack in Syria and said, 'No child of God should ever suffer such horror.'![missile4]()
April 7: In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea![missile5]()
April 7: The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians.PHOTOS: US conducts cruise missile strike against Syria
The United States launched nearly five dozen cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield early Friday in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians, the first direct assault on the Damascus government since the beginning of that country's bloody civil war in 2011.
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