14 Tewas akibat Dihantam Rudal di Pangkalan Udara Suriah
`Fourteen Dead` including Iranian Fighters as Missiles Hit Syrian Air Base Hours
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
SEJUMLAH RUDAL menghantam pangkalan udara di Suriah tengah pada Senin pagi, seperti laporan kantor berita yang dikelola pemerintah.
Meskipun kantor berita tersebut menegaskan kemungkinan aksi ´agresi Amerika´, pejabat AS mengatakan pemerintahnya belum meluncurkan serangan udara di Suriah.
Juru bicara Pentagon Christopher Sherwood mengatakan dalam sebuah pernyataan, ´Pada saat ini, Departemen Pertahanan tidak melakukan serangan udara di Suriah.´
Serangan rudal itu menyusul serangan gas beracun yang diduga terjadi pada Sabtu sebagai serangan terakhir bagi oposisi Suriah di pinggiran timur Damaskus.
Setidaknya 40 orang tewas, termasuk keluarga yang ditemukan di rumah dan tempat tinggal mereka, seperti dilaporkan pihak oposisi.dan tim SAR Suriah seperti dilansir MailOnline.
MISSILES struck an air base in central Syria early Monday, its state-run news agency reported.
Although the agency said it was likely ´an American aggression,´ U.S. officials said the U.S. had not launched airstrikes on Syria.
Pentagon spokesman Christopher Sherwood said in a statement, ´At this time, the Department of Defense is not conducting air strikes in Syria.´
The missile attack followed a suspected poison gas attack Saturday on the last remaining foothold for the Syrian opposition in the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
At least 40 people were killed, including families found in their homes and shelters, opposition activists and local rescuers said.
