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12:33 15.04.2018(updated
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Following a massive
missile strike launched by the United States and its allies, the Syrian
leadership is now considering how to respond to this attack and which methods
to employ.
Syria’s response
to the "tripartite strikes" against the country may come
in the form of "attacks against the aggressors' bases"
in the country via surface-to-surface missile attacks and
with the help of local resistance groups, Brigadier General Mohammed
Issa told Sputnik Arabic.
The United States
currently maintains several military bases in Syria, located in the
vicinity of the city of al-Tanf near the country’s border
with Iraq, and in the areas controlled by the so-called Syrian
Democratic Forces in Syria’s north, where France also recently established
a military presence.
He also said that the Syrian army intends
to deploy anti-air units to all of the country’s regions,
turning them into "closed air defense zones."
Gen. Issa also praised
the efficiency of the Syrian anti-air forces that managed
to intercept most of the missiles fired by the US and its
cohorts at Syria.
Syria’s President Bashar
Assad has slammed the attack as an act of "aggression" and
praised the quality of the Soviet-made weapons from 1970s that were
used by his country to repel the strike.
Earlier, the United Kingdom,
the United States and France launched strikes at Syria over reports
of a chemical attack in the city of Douma, with the three
countries firing over 100 missiles at the Middle Eastern country.
Syrian air defense forces
however reportedly managed to intercept 71 of the incoming missiles.
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