Tillerson will also press Russian Federation on its failure to prevent Syria using chemical weapons, he said in interviews aired Sunday.
We are working with our parties and allies to magnify the effects of this strike to - and then to build momentum toward ultimately resolving the civil war, defeating ISIS and bringing the peace and security back to this region and to the Syrian people. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Mr. Trump had "sent a strong and clear message" that will be heard far beyond Syria. "So this makes us more afraid".
Saudi Arabia said the missile launch by Trump 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".
"So I find it very disappointing, but, sadly, I have to tell you, not all that surprising", he added. "China and Syria's militaries have traditionally maintained a friendly relationship, and China's military is willing to keep strengthening exchanges and cooperation with Syria's military", Guan told the Syrian defense minister during the meeting. It is also closing down a hotline with the USA created to avoid collisions between their air forces over Syria, the BBC report added.
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"Last night's targeted missile attack on al-Shayrat air base was a measured and appropriate response to the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent men, women, and children". Syria's government has denied responsibility.
Nikki Haley, the USA ambassador to the United Nations, was even more sharply critical of Russian Federation for continuing to deny Assad's role in deploying chemical weapons in last week's attack. "Australia was not involved in the strike but we remain fully committed as a coalition partner to our ongoing military operations in Iraq and Syria".
"The United States will not stand by when chemical weapons are used". The airstrikes of April 6 were a good first step, but the United States must go further to push back against Assad and his allies, Russian Federation and Iran. "Strengthening Assad will only lead to more murders", she said.
Several Western allies of the United States described the strikes as a proportionate response to Mr Assad's suspected use of poison gas.
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"When you take your own path, this leads to frightful tragedies in the region", he told the Americans. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the strike does not signal a new US offensive in Syria, where there are already almost 1,000 USA troops focused on the fight against ISIS.
Cruise missiles fly low and have a relatively small radar cross-section so they are hard to destroy with air defences.
Obama's abrupt decision not to fire missiles and instead work with Russian Federation to remove Assad's chemical weapons infuriated many Republicans who had backed the Democratic president's proposal.
"Those attacks did not reduce the regime's ability kill civilians". Although American officials have predicted that the strikes would result in a major shift of Assad's calculus, they appeared to be symbolic in practice.
On Friday, the U.S. fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian air base from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched earlier in the week, escalating the United States role in Syria and drawing criticism from Assad's allies.
But in the aftermath of the attack, Trump ordered the strike targeting the Shayrat air base in central Syria's Homs province with 59 Tomahawk missiles.
"This has absolutely nothing to do with attempts to find out what happened to the chemical weapons", Zakharov said.
Syrian state media said as many as nine civilians had been killed in the strike, four of them children.
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