Nine civilians including four children were killed in the US missile attack on a Syrian airbase near the city of Homs on Friday, the Syrian state news agency Sana is reporting.
Sana said the civilians died in villages near the airbase and seven more people were wounded.
It is not clear whether this figure includes any of the six dead announced by the Syrian army earlier.
Separately, a Russian Defence Ministry spokesman said four Syrian soldiers had been killed in the airstrikes, two were still missing and six sustained burns.
In launching the attack, President Donald Trump said he would not tolerate the use of chemical weapons by Syria’s President Hafez Assad regime “on innocent civilians”. Britain, Germany, France, Poland and NATO have endorsed the attack, blaming Assad for it. But Russia, an ally criticized the attack and suspended a talk with the USA.

