Syria's foreign ministry on Saturday denounced Western strikes as a "brutal, barbaric aggression" hours after the US, France, and Britain launched a joint strike.
"The barbaric aggression ... will not affect in any way the determination and insistence of the Syrian people and their heroic armed forces," state news agency SANA cited an official source in the ministry as saying.
The strikes aimed to block a probe by the OPCW global chemical watchdog into an alleged gas attack outside Damascus, the source underlined. "This aggression will only lead to inflaming tensions in the world" and threatens international security, the source in the ministry said.
