Tillerson: 'Proportional use violence'

- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson believes that US forces have carried out a proportional attack on the Syrian base.

According Tillerson there is no doubt that the Syrian regime used sarin gas attack on civilian targets in the country earlier this week. That would be done from the Shayrat base, which is now bombarded with Tomahawk missiles by two US warships in the eastern Mediterranean.

At the base were possible Russian military presence. The US has previously informed Russia about the impending attack is imminent.

'However, we have not sought the approval of Russia', the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson known.

'The attack did not hit parts of the base where possible were established Russian troops', a spokesman of the Pentagon.

Tillerson also hinted that the Russians are partly responsible for the attack. 'Russia has been unwilling or unable to carry out an agreement in 2013 and the Syrian secure chemical weapons', said the minister, who also reported that 'the attack shows that Trump is prepared to act decisively on. '

US officials believe the Syrian opportunities still perform poison gas attacks after the attack 'are drastically reduced. '

In Syria, the governor of Homs district in a telephone interview with Syrian state TV announced that will not change the course of the Syrian regime and the Syrian policy. 'This attack was not the first and I do not think it will be the last. '

'This attack only the interests of the armed terrorist groups and served IS' said Talal Barazi.

The base would be ablaze. Fire fighting and rescue operations take hours to complete, according to Syrian officials.