U.S. fires missiles at Assad airbase; Russia denounces 'aggression'

By Steve Holland, Andrew Osborn and Tom PerryPALM BEACH, Fla./MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States fired cruise missiles on Friday at a Syrian airbase from which President Donald Trump said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched, the first direct U.S. assault on the government of Bashar al-Assad in six years of civil war.In the biggest foreign policy decision of his presidency so far, Trump ordered the step his predecessor Barack Obama never took: directly targeting Assad's mi