UPDATE (Video): US strikes Syria Airbase with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles

*US launched Fifty-nine Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syria base.

*The strike came following suspected chemical attack in Idlib province and after Pentagon stated that Syria had violated its obligations under the chemical weapons agreement

*Not less than 86 people, including 27 children, were reportedly killed after the suspected poison gas attack on its citizens in town of Khan Sheikhoun area of Idlib province

In revenge for a chemical weapons attack that slew some civilians, the United States has pounce on the Syria government with almost five dozens of cruise missile strikes at a government-controlled airbase.

Al-Jazeera reported that the Pentagon noted that 59 Tomahawk missiles hit at Shayrat airfield in Homs province at about 3:45am on Friday morning, April, 7, 2017, from where it was believed that the Syrian jets that released the chemicals on a town control by the rebel, in Idlib province had taken off.

The Syrian state TV also described a US missile attack on a number of military targets, as an ‘act of aggression.’

An official said the strikes was launched from two warships in the Mediterranean Sea, targeting the base's airstrips, control tower, hangars and ammunition areas.

It was the first direct military action the US has taken against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the six-year war.

Meanwhile, the Syria's opposition National Coalition has welcomed the US strike, said it will end an age of "impunity" and this should be just the start.

The US military said early signs were that the missiles had severely destroyed Syrian jets and support infrastructure and equipment at the airstrip.

It was gathered that not less than 86 persons, including 27 children, were murdered after a suspected poison gas attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in Idlib province on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, according to the report from a UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The attack drew general international condemnation and public uprising, provoking the United Nations to pledge it would probe it as a war crime incident.

The Syrian administration refuted the accusation and claimed unawareness in carrying out the raid. Russia, who is a main military ally of the Assad administration, has accused the opposition, saying a government bombed a building where rebels were manufacturing chemical weapons. However, the rebels deny this claim.

Speaking on the strike, Trump said: "There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council."