Russian Federation has insisted it was Syrian rebels - Assad's forces - that were responsible for the chemical weapons.
Moscow has sought to deflect blame from its long-time ally Assad over the alleged chemical attack and says Syrian jets struck a rebel arms depot where "toxic substances" were being put inside bombs.
"We determined that a measured military response could best deter the regime from doing this again".
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not adopt Tillerson's conciliatory tone, instead telling local media that the level of trust between the USA and Moscow had deteriorated further since Trump took office, according to Reuters.
The United States said its strike on the Syrian airbase near Homs on Friday was a one-off, and not a strategic shift.
The strikes on Syrian assets following its chemical attack on its people is a separate operation from the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Mattis told reporters, and he pointed out that ISIS remains the United States' priority.
This military action demonstrates that the USA will not passively stand by while President Bashar al-Assad blithely ignores worldwide law and employs chemical weapons he had declared destroyed, he added. He was awarded Russia's "Order of Friendship" by Putin in 2013.He is due to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday.
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"Our military policy in Syria has not changed", the secretary said. "ISIS represents a clear and present danger, an immediate threat to Europe and ultimately, a threat to the U.S. homeland", he said.
"We assessed that we achieved our stated objective and the regime's ability to generate offensive military capability from Shayrat airfield, which we assess, was the launching point for this chemical attack has been severely degraded", he said.
"We both have agreed our lines of communication shall always remain open", Tillerson said. "I think this president's made it very clear that if those actions were to continue, further action will definitely be considered by the United States."Retaliating for barrel bombs would require a major shift in USA policy since rebels say the weapons are used nearly daily.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said Syrian warplanes dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held areas of Hama province on Tuesday". The use by the Assad regime of chemical weapons, and we addressed that militarily.
"Syria is a signatory to that global convention".
"In response to the attack, our government began a deliberate process, led by the National Security Council, to recommend diplomatic and military options to the president", Mattis said.
"We have information from various sources that such provocations - I can not call them otherwise - are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in the southern outskirts of Damascus, where they are again planning to throw some kind of substance and accuse Syrian official authorities of using it", Putin said at a televised press conference. "They performed extraordinarily well, and we are very, very proud of them", Votel said.
"It was very clear that the Assad regime planned it, orchestrated it, and executed it. Beyond that, we can't say right now".
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