The Red Cross has characterized the current situation in Syria as an “international armed conflict” after the US missile strike on Syrian Shayrat airfield near Homs, the ICRC regional spokesperson told RT.

Afghan Voice Agency(AVA),The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) spokesperson for the Near and Middle East region, Ralph El Hage, spoke with RT about the shift in the organization’s assessment of the ongoing Syrian conflict. The ICRC previously regarded the conflict as an internal conflict.
“When a military of a certain state attacks the military of another state on the territory of that state, and there are legitimate military targets, that amounts immediately to international armed conflict,” he told RT.

he US attacked Syrian Shayrat Airbase near Homs on Friday night in retaliation to the suspected chemical weapons attack in southern Idlib province. Washington immediately blamed the Assad government for the incident, which reportedly killed dozens of civilians, claiming that Damascus used the airfield to launch the attack. The accusations have not been supported by any conclusive evidence yet.

The Syrian government has rejected the allegations. According to the countries’ military, the Syrian airstrike hit a warehouse which terrorists used to produce and store weaponized chemicals.