DAMASCUS– Syria called on the International community and the UN Security Council to strongly condemn the brutal US, British, French aggression which can only lead to further ignite tensions and pose threat to the international peace and security, according to SANA.

“At 03:55 am (at local time) the US, Britain and France launched a ferocious aggression on Syria through firing 110 missiles towards Syrian targets in Damascus and other Syrian cities and areas, the majority of which were shot downed by the Syrian air defense systems,” the Ministry of Expatriates and Foreign Affairs said in two letters sent Saturday to the UN Secretary-General and Chief of the UN Security Council on the gross violation of International Law and the UN’s Charter committed by the US, Britain and France.

Damascus - the General Command of the Army and Armed Forces stressed Saturday that most of the missiles fired by the US, Britain and France tripartite aggression on Syrian targets in Damascus and outside it were shot down.

The General Command announced that a tripartite aggression was carried out at 03:55 a.m. (at local time) by the US, Britain and France through firing 110 missiles towards Syrian targets in Damascus and outside it, SANA reported.

DAMASCUS- An official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said Saturday that Syria condemns with the strongest terms the tripartite US, British and French aggression on Syria as being a flagrant violation of the international law and the principals of UN charter, SANA reported.

The source added that the tripartite aggression showed again the recklessness of the hostile countries with the international legitimacy.

DAMASCUS, (ST)- The Syrian Arab army air defenses have confronted a US-French- British aggression on Syria that was launched at dawn today.

According to the Syrian TV, the air defenses downed 13 missiles over Kisweh area before reaching their targets.

The TV reporter denied news that  Damascus International Airport was attacked.

SANA reporters said that the tripartite aggression missiles attacked the research center in Barza area and that the Syrian air defenses confronted a number of missiles that targeted army depots in Homs.

NEW YORK – Syria’s Permanent Representative at the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said that if the US, Britain, and France think they can attack Syria and violate its sovereignty, the Syrian people will confront them and will not allow anyone to transgress upon their country’s sovereignty, according to SANA.

During a Security Council session held on Friday upon Russia’s request to discuss the US threats about attacking Syria, al-Jaafari said that the US Representative claimed that the Syrian government used chemical weapons 50 times which led to the death of 200 civilians, describing this as amateur talk fit for children’s comic books, because it makes no sense that a government would use chemical weapons 50 times to kill 200 civilians.

Damascus – Four civilians, two of them children, were injured by shells fired by Daesh (ISIS) terrorists on the outskirts of Yarmouk Camp in Damascus.

A source at Damascus Police Command said that Daesh terrorists positioned in Yarmouk Camp fired 3 shells which landed on a building opposite al-Rahma Hospital in the surroundings of al-Batikha roundabout at the outskirts of the Camp, injuring four civilians, two of them children, in addition to causing material damage, SANA reported.

The source added that Daesh terrorists also fired a mortar shell which fell near al-Bashir Mosque at the Camp’s outskirts, causing material damage.

Damascus Countryside – During canvassing operations in the towns which were cleared from terrorism in Eastern Ghouta, Syrian Arab Army units found a large a lab for making toxic materials and workshop for manufacturing shells in Aftris area.

A military source said that lab that was abandoned by terrorists in Aftris town is equipped to make various types of toxic substances, and has all the necessary equipment for making powders used in making prohibited weapons, SANA reported.