Video shows the first look at the damage on the ground after the US, France and the UK launched coordinated strikes in Syria, hitting targets associated with the Syrian regime's chemical weapons program.
CNN has obtained video that reportedly shows an airstrike in Syria. Earlier President Donald Trump announced he ordered strikes on the Syrian regime in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack.
US, UK and France have launched a joint military strike. Here is a summary of what has happened
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Mona Mahmood has interviewed Syrians in favor of and opposed to the joint military action.
Wael Abdullah, a 25-year-old resident of Ghouta and who had to flee to the countryside outside Aleppo, told the Guardian:
This is a great step by President Trump by which he sends a hot message to Bashar Al-Assad that he can’t continue killing his people by all kinds of weapons with the help of the Russians and Iranians. We are looking for more to get to the day that we celebrate the toppling of the Syrian regime.
He continued: “We know that these rockets will not stop Bashar and his gangsters in keeping on killing the Syrian people, but they are good to make him aware that there will be a response from now on to all his vicious acts against his innocent people.
“The best thing the US administration can do to the Syrian people is to launch an attack in cooperation with all Syrian factions who have been fighting the regime. We want an all-out war that could put an end to this tragedy. I’m sure the US president and his allies have full knowledge of what is going on Syria. They should not act just when Bashar uses chemical weapons and then leave his hand free.”
In contrast, Ayad Younis, a 35-year-old teacher in a secondary school in Damascus, said:
This is a blatant aggression against Syria, a staged drama created by the US to attack our land. It is incredible that these superpowers would get their information from social networks though they are full of lies and fabrications about the use of chemical weapons against our people in Douma.
He added: “I woke up at midnight with my wife and one year kid to the sound of the explosions. At the beginning, I thought this is thunder but when I opened the window, I found people on the roofs watching what was happening. TV news confirmed that most of the rockets were intercepted and deviated.
“I think the aim of the aggression is to achieve a moral victory for the US which considered itself a super state. If Trump threatens, then he has to fulfill his threats, that is all. This aggression changes nothing in my belief that Syria is winning. I already lost a number of my relatives in our war and these terrorists want to turn Syria to a jungle. Their malicious attempts will be foiled and they will be defeated.
“I denounce this immoral act. We have passed the most seven difficult years in the history of Syria, a couple of rockets won’t change anything on the ground, yet, will encourage us to fight for Syria.”
