Syria calls US airstrike 'terrorism', as Russia says it's 'unacceptable'A US military strike in Syria on Thursday [Friday NZ Time] was "government terrorism" and caused a massacre, Syrian government negotiator Bashar al-Ja'afari has said, while Russia called it an unacceptable breach of Syrian sovereignty. The US strike was the second deliberate military attack on forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "It is utterly unacceptable and a violation of Syria's sovereignty," Russian news agencies quoted him as saying. "Any military action leading to an escalation of the situation in Syria has an impact on the political process." "Literally a day before this [latest strike], a strike was carried out which resulted in a large number of civilian deaths, which is also unacceptable," Gatilov was cited as saying.

Source: Stuff May 19, 2017 13:52 UTC