Nato starts air strikes in Syria! Russian has warned of consequences

This saturday, April 14 2018, the United States, supported by its allies, launched an airstrike against military and civilian targets in the Syrian Arab Republic. The UK, US and France have launched co-ordinated air strikes in Syria in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack. US president Donald Trump announced the "combined operation" on Friday night, as Prime Minister Theresa May said there was "no practicable alternative to the use of force". In a press conference on Saturday morning, the PM said she is "confident" of the success of the strikes, which were "right and legal" to "prevent further humanitarian crisis". “It is clear who is responsible for this atrocity,” she said, explaining why the strikes were carried out. Both leaders denounced the "cruel and abhorrent" attack by the Syrian regime on the town of Douma last Saturday. Trump said: "This evil and despicable act left mothers and fathers and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air. "The combined American, British and French response will integrate all instruments of our national power." Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned the West against air strikes, saying they risk causing further instability in the region and upsetting international peace and security. May held an emergency Cabinet meeting on Thursday afternoon to discuss Britain's response to a chemical weapons attack allegedly carried out by the Syrian regime on its own people. Trump has previously warned Russia's ally to "get ready" for missiles while the White House refused to rule out direct conflict with Moscow. Vladimir Putin said that the US-led strike would “worsen the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria”. The attack would “bring suffering to the peaceful population, in effect pander to the terrorists who have tormented the Syrian people for seven years, and provoke a new wave of refugees” from the country, the Russian president said. The attack would “have a destructive effect on the entire system of international relations”, he added. Putin also repeated Russian insistences that the country had found no evidence of the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma that led to Saturday morning’s airstrikes. “Russian military experts at the place of the alleged incident did not find any signs of the use of chlorine or other poisonous substances. Not one local resident confirmed the fact of a chemical attack,” Putin said in the statement released by the Kremlin. Putin also attack the US-led coalition for carrying out the strike “without waiting for the results of the investigation”, referring to a fact finding mission of experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons bound for Douma.