The Latest: Russia Warns of Consequences After Syria Strike
The spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry is denouncing the United States for launching airstrikes on Syria.
WASHINGTON (AP) — THE Latest on U.S.-led missile strikes on Syria (all times local):
11:55 p.m.
The spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry is denouncing the United States for launching airstrikes on Syria. She says the attacks hit a long-troubled country "that for many years has been trying to survive terrorist aggression."
In a statement Saturday on Facebook, Maria Zakharova is also taking Western media reports to task.
Zakharova says: "The White House stated that its assuredness of the chemical attack from Damascus was based on 'mass media, reports of symptoms, video, photos as well as credible information.' After this statement the American and other Western mass media should understand their responsibility in what is happening."
Sakharova is comparing the situation to the start of the Iraq War in 2003 based on claims Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction.