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Syria bombing map – where did UK and US air strikes bomb and what has been Russia’s response?
"Important infrastructure" was destroyed in the air strikes on Syria by US, UK and French forces in mid-April
A BARRAGE of cruise missiles rained down on Syrian regime's poison gas facilities on April 14.
The UK, US and French joint airstrikes were retaliation to the chemical warfare atrocity against civilians on April 7. Here’s where the coalition has struck.
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Where have the joint strikes hit in Syria?
Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons factories were targeted by these surgical strikes.
Chemical weapons research and storage plants were flattened in Homs and Damascus.
General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Pentagon briefing: "Important infrastructure was destroyed which will result in a setback for the Syrian regime.
“They will lose years of research and development, storage and equipment."
B-1B Bombers along with F15 and F16s hit a research facility in Damascus and airfields while a guided missile destroyer launched a barrage Tomahawk missiles on this site.
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Meanwhile four Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s from RAF Akotiri and launched Storm Shadow missiles at a military facility – a former missile base – fifteen miles west of Homs, where it is believed chemical weapons were stored.
A French warship and Rafale fighter jets launched 12 cruise missiles on other military sites.
Russia's defence ministry says 71 of a total of 103 cruise missiles were intercepted by Syrian air defences.
How did Russia respond to the strikes on Syria?
Russia warned there "will be consequences" following the coalition airstrikes on Syria.
Vladimir Putin denounced the strike after his ambassador to the United States said the bombings were an insult to the president as the three nations joined forces in response to the "evil and despicable crimes of a monster".
Russian ambassador Anatoly Antonov said on Twitter: "A pre-designed scenario is being implemented.
“Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences.
“Insulting the President of Russia is unacceptable and inadmissable.
“The US - the possessor of the biggest arsenal of chemical weapons - has no moral right to blame other countries.”
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What did Theresa May say following the strikes?
Speaking to reporters the morning after, the Prime Minister said the military strikes on Syria were "limited and targeted" and designed to degrade the Syrian regime's ability to develop and use chemical weapons.
She said: "It was both right and legal to take military action together with our closest allies to alleviate further humanitarian suffering by degrading the Syrian regime's chemical weapons capability."
Opposition parties in the UK were critical of the PM's failure to call a vote in Parliament prior to the strikes.
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