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Scenes from the airstrikes on Syria, and the aftermath

By Ken Chamberlain

Apr 14, 2018

What happened during and after the United States on Friday night launched a retaliatory strike against Syria for its use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians? Below are images and video from the attacks and after:

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile early Saturday, April 14, 2018, as part of the military response to Syria's use of chemical weapons on April 7. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Trey Fowler/Navy via AP)

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile early Saturday, April 14, 2018, as part of the military response to Syria's use of chemical weapons on April 7. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Trey Fowler/Navy via AP)

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In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile early Saturday, April 14, 2018, as part of the military response to Syria's use of chemical weapons on April 7. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Trey Fowler/Navy via AP)

The Damascus sky lights up missile fire as the U.S. launches an attack on Syria targeting different parts of the capital early Saturday, April 14, 2018. Syria's capital has been rocked by loud explosions that lit up the sky with heavy smoke as U.S. President Donald Trump announced airstrikes in retaliation for the country's alleged use of chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford, explains the U.S. role in joint airstrikes with the United Kingdom and France against Syria during a Apr. 13 press conference. (U.S. Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith/Defense Department)

Smoke rises after airstrikes targeting different parts of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, early Saturday, April 14, 2018. Syria's capital has been rocked by loud explosions that lit up the sky with heavy smoke as U.S. President Donald Trump announced airstrikes in retaliation for the country's alleged use of chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the damage of the Syrian Scientific Research Center which was attacked by U.S., British and French military strikes to punish President Bashar Assad for suspected chemical attack against civilians, in Barzeh, near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 14, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Smoke rises at sunrise after airstrikes targeting different parts of the Syrian capital Damascus, early Saturday, April 14, 2018. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

US Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., shows a damage assesment image of the Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Storage site as he briefs the press on the stikes against Syria, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on April 14. 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Planet, a commercial satellite company, released two images of an area of Damascus, one taken before the coalition airstrikes and one after.

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the damage of the Syrian Scientific Research Center which was attacked by U.S., British and French military strikes to punish President Bashar Assad for suspected chemical attack against civilians, in Barzeh, near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 14, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Syrian government supporters wave Syrian, Iranian and Russian flags as they chant slogans against U.S. President Trump during demonstrations following a wave of U.S., British and French military strikes to punish President Bashar Assad for suspected chemical attack against civilians, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 14, 2018. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is pictured during his meeting with Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in Moscow on April 14, 2018. Russia's defense ministry said on April 14 the Western strikes claimed no victims among Syrian civilians or military. (Mikhail Klimentiev/AFP/Getty Images)

Syrians wave the national flag and portraits of President Bashar al-Assad as they gather in Aleppo's Saadallah al-Jabiri square on April 14, 2018, to condemn the strikes carried out by the United States, Britain and France against the Syrian regime. (George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images)

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Khamenei said that the U.S.-led attack on Syria is a "crime" and said the countries behind it will gain nothing. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

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