Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said the strike had brought Moscow and Washington to the verge of a "military clash", adding that the action was "good news for terrorists".
Syrian activists and state media say an airstrike by the US -led coalition on a northern village held by the Islamic State group has killed at least 13 civilians, including children.
"We can end the needless suffering of the Syrian people, but only if Moscow, too, gets the message of Thursday night's strikes", Fallon said. That creates added danger for US forces on the ground in northern Syria waging a separate war against the Islamic State group, and American aircraft targeting extremist groups from Syria's skies. US warplanes frequently attack Islamic State militants in Syria and come close to Russian forces.
Raids hit several other rebel-held towns including Saraqeb and Sarmin in the province, where the rebels and activists said incendiary bombs were dropped.
"If you were honest in your claim of fighting terrorists, why did you attack the Syrian Army", the president added.
President Hassan Rouhani earlier criticised his USA counterpart Donald Trump for the missiles fired early on Friday in response to the suspected chemical attack. Russian Federation had its own military personnel at the Syrian military airport that the US struck with cruise missiles.
The secretary of state must be "the spokesman for American foreign policy", said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official during George W. Bush's presidency.
"What we should do is focus on ISIS".
He called for the continuation of the peace talks in Kazakhstan, which were organized by Russian Federation and Turkey.
"Assad did this because he thought he could get away with it".
"People are anxious that [the attack is] just to make some media noise", he said, "that this was a one-time USA strike on the Shayrat airport, that they won't strike again, and the reckoning has ended".
It will be their first face-to-face encounter since USA cruise missiles slammed into a Syrian air base early Friday Damascus time in retaliation for a suspected sarin gas attack on April 4 that killed at least 87 civilians in Syria's northern Idlib province.
He declined to say whether Trump now believed Assad should relinquish power.
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Cavusoglu said after the transitional government takes over, it will be followed with elections in which Syrians in the country and overseas can vote.
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is calling for the formation of an global fact-finding committee to investigate the chemical weapons attack in a northern Syrian town that killed at least 87 people.
"Why shoud a sovereign state be attacked", Rouhani questioned.
US officials called the intervention a "one-off" meant to deter future chemical weapons attacks and not an expansion of the USA role in the Syrian war.
The US and its allies are meanwhile, preparing to press for a United Nations resolution condemning the Assad regime for the use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians, but Russian Federation is likely to veto the motion.
And if Trump is now willing to protect Syrians from chemical attacks, will he feel compelled to shield others from what has been Assad's more pervasive slaughter?
The Local Coordination Committees, another monitoring group, said the airstrike was carried out by Russian warplane. It said the woman killed had fled to the town from her hometown of Latameh in central Syria.
Haley was speaking at a special United Nations session one day after the US military struck an airbase that served as home base for the Syrian planes that conducted the chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians, including children, earlier in the week.
Criticized for his low-profile diplomacy, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is emerging from the shadows with a leading public role in shaping and explaining the Trump administration's missile strikes in Syria.
The news agency reports that during the Friday phone call, the Saudi monarch congratulated Trump for his "courageous decision".
Saudi Arabia said the missile launch was the right response to "the crimes of this regime to its people in light of the failure of the worldwide community to stop it".
The barrage of Tomahawk missiles came as surprise for many Syrians, whether allied or opposed to President Bashar Assad.
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