The attack of the United States, the United Kingdom and France on Syria, in images

1- Anti-aircraft blasts in Damascus. US President Donald Trump ordered a joint offensive with France and the United Kingdom against Bachar El Asad's "chemical weapons capabilities" in response to an alleged chemical attack blamed on the Syrian government.

2Western attacks hit a military research center that also served as a warehouse in the province of Homs, in central Syria.

3The attacks carried out in Syria by the United States, France and the United Kingdom were concentrated on selected targets in order not to reach Russian forces, according to the head of the US Joint Command, General Joe Dunford.

4Within minutes of starting the attack, the anti-aircraft teams of the capital of Syria have begun to work to prevent US missiles from hitting the capital.

5Alarms have been heard on the streets of Damascus to warn the population of the attacks

6The first of the attacks, near Damascus, was aimed at a scientific research center used, according to the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Joseph Dunford, for "the research, development, production and testing of chemical weapons and biological.

7The second objective of the United States and its European allies was a chemical weapons deposit located west of Homs.

8Four 'Tornados' fighter aircraft of the British Air Force (RAF) participated in a "successful attack" in Syria against a military storage facility of the Bashar al-Assad regime, a spokesman for the UK Defense Ministry confirmed.

9According to the United States, the objectives that were attacked and destroyed were associated with the chemical weapons program of the Syrian regime.

16This morning's military offensive by the United States, France and the United Kingdom against Syria, following the alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government in the eastern city of Duma last Saturday, is the second launched by the United States against the Syrian government. Arab country for the same reason in a year. In April 2017, the Syrian regime was accused of bombing with chemical weapons, on the 4th of that month, the town of Jan Shijún, in northern Syria, which caused 86 deaths according to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory.

25Remains of a scientific building destroyed by the US in the district of Barzeh, north of Damascus, during a press tour organized by the Syrian Ministry of Information.

26A soldier inspects the ruins of one of the research centers attacked by the United States.