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Syria destroyed 71 of 103 cruise missiles during Western strike, Russia says

By REUTERS
April 17, 2018

MOSCOW: Russia´s Defence Ministry said on Monday that Syria´s military had destroyed 71 out of 103 cruise missiles detected in the country´s airspace during the Western strike at the weekend, the RIA news agency reported. On Saturday, US, French and British missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria´s chemical weapons programme in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack a week earlier.