US President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on a Syrian airfield over this week's chemical-weapons attack that has been tied to forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Early Friday local time, the US Navy reportedly launched more than 50 cruise missiles at an airfield and nearby Syrian military infrastructure. Officials told NBC News no people were targeted.

The attack came just hours after reports that Trump had summoned his defense secretary, Jim Mattis, to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to discuss his options.

But before that, Hillary Clinton was advocating exactly the action Trump ended up taking:

Clinton on Assad: "I really believe that should've and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from...bombing innocent people" pic.twitter.com/34f0qD6sE5 — Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) April 6, 2017

The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee was speaking at the Women of the World Summit in New York, and she said "that air force is the cause of most of the civilian deaths."

Clinton also served up a slight criticism of her former boss Barack Obama, saying the Democrats "should have been more willing to confront Assad" after previous chemical attacks killed scores of innocent civilians.

She said her belief in the best course of action at the time was to establish no-fly zones over Syria.