BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) –A United States strike on a Syrian airbase ordered in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack killed four soldiers on Friday and virtually destroyed its facilities, a monitoring group said. “An air commodore was among the four soldiers killed,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The airbase was almost completely destroyed — the runway, the fuel tanks and the air defences were all blown to pieces,” the Britain-based monitoring group said. […]