Anti-War Movement condemns US attack on Syrian building

The Irish Anti-War Movement has condemned the US attack in Syria in which eight people died.

The Syrian government said four US military helicopters attacked a civilian building under construction shortly before dusk, killing eight people in Sukkariyeh – a village about five miles inside the Syrian border.

The US has said the raid targeted the home of Abu Ghadiyah, the nickname for the leader of a key cell of foreign fighters in Iraq.

The Irish Anti-War Movement called the raid "brutal and unwarranted".

"It amounts to desperate terrorist tactics," said spkeswoman Marnie Holborow. "This is obviously part of a concerted policy to extend US military operations outside the border of Iraq."