However, the Russian Defense Ministry said "no evidence whatsoever" has been presented by Washington to prove that the Shayrat airfield had any chemical weapons. "I think the president has authorization to use force".
While threatening further strikes, the USA envoy also said it was time to press on with a political solution to the six-year war.
"The failure related to the recent strike and the recent bad chemical weapons attack in large measure is a failure on Russia's part to achieve its commitment to the global community", he added.
USA warships in the Mediterranean fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles around 3:40 am Syria time (late Thursday in Washington, 0040 GMT Friday) at the airfield located near Homs in central Syria. It makes me wonder if the Pentagon knows more than they are now saying about this.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can not stay in power after a suspected chemical attack last week prompted the first direct US military action against his government, Washington's ambassador to the United Nations has said.
Members of Trump's administration have hinted that the U.S.is not done intervening in Syria.
"It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons", Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he was hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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A Syrian Sukhoi jet took off from the Shayrat airbase targeted by the volley of USA strikes, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV channel reported Sunday, saying repairs to the base began within hours of the attack. We are prepared to do more but we hope that will not be necessary.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, blamed Russian inaction for helping fuel the chemical weapons attack it had reacted to. He emphasized that point on CBS' Face the Nation, noting that the administration is "hopeful ... we can navigate a political outcome in which the Syrian people, in fact, will determine Bashar al-Assad's fate and his legitimacy". Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, said the attacks had fatally undermined Moscow's initial trust in the new US administration and brought the countries to "the verge of a military clash".
"This was a continuation of a series of chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad, this was not the first."
Johnson said the situation in Syria has changed "fundamentally" following the chemical attack and the US response.
A U.S. Navy admiral said the missile strikes had destroyed the ability of the Syrian military to launch chemical strikes from the base.
The death toll from an air strike on Saturday on the rebel-held town of Urum al-Joz in Idlib province rose to 19 people, including six children, activists and residents said. And Haley, too, said Washington's priority was "no longer to sit and focus on getting Assad out". Those were put in place over the situation in Ukraine and Crimea, Tillerson said, adding that until the issues in that region are addressed, "sanctions will remain in place". Still, Haley said the USA didn't see a peaceful future Syria with Assad in power.
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