Syrian President Bashar Assad called the U.S. missile strike on an air base near Homs Thursday “reckless” and “irresponsible.”
The Associated Press reported the embattled dictator denounced President Trump’s decision to unleash 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles as “reckless, irresponsible behavior.”
Assad said the strike was based on faulty information and Trump’s decision was “short-sighted,” according to the report. He accused U.S. foreign policy of being based on “subjugating people.”
The airstrikes killed six people in at the Shayrat airfield in Homs province Thursday evening. Trump told the nation the strikes were a response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack on its own people earlier in the week.
The base attacked by the missile strike is believed to be the point from which the Syrian air force launched the chemical weapons attack.
