Warplanes struck a northern Syrian town Saturday where a chemical attack killed scores of people earlier this week, killing one person and wounding another as Turkey described the US missile attack on an air base as a "cosmetic intervention" unless it removes President Bashar Assad from power.
Syria's regime denounced the strike as a "flagrant aggression" and state news agency Sana said nine civilians including four children had been killed in villages near the base.The attack was hailed by the Syrian opposition and supported by U.S. allies including Nato, European Union, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
On Thursday, Trump ordered attacks against a military airbase in Syria with dozens of Tomahawk missiles, after the United States and its allies accused Damascus of killing civilians with chemical weapons on Tuesday.
Air strikes have struck Syria's town of Urum al-Joz in rebel-controlled Idlib province on Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Civil Defence rescue service.
The army chiefs of Russian Federation and Iran discussed the USA strikes in Syria by phone on Saturday and vowed to continue the fight against "terrorists" and their supporters, Iranian media reported.
Mr. Trudeau added in his first public comments on the matter that he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump Friday morning.
Rouhani said, "Using chemical weapons, which is an unforgivable crime, was to divert the public opinion from the realities".
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a more nuanced view, asserting that Assad had undermined his legitimacy as a leader but declaring that defeating Islamic State remains the top USA goal in Syria.
Mr. Trudeau said he informed Mr. Trump that Canada will stand by the Americans in their efforts to eliminate Syria's ability to deploy chemical weapons.
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Russian Federation said Mr Johnson's decision showed a lack of understanding of events in Syria and claimed there was little point in speaking to Britain anyway as it was "in the shadow" of its partners.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the USA strike should be the start of a renewed effort to end the civil war, which has killed an estimated 400,000 people and displaced half of Syria's population.
Trump's decision to strike Syria won widespread praise from other nations, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which support the Syrian opposition.
"We are prepared to do more, but we hope it will not be necessary".
The United States launched a cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base in response to the attack on Friday.
"For the first time really as president, he talked about worldwide norms, global rules, about America's role in enforcing justice in the world", Zakaria, the host of CNN's "GPS", said of Trump's remarks explaining the military action late Thursday.
He also said that the USA missile airstrikes were an effort to dispirit the Syrian people and Army and to embolden the terrorists.
Haley also said further military options are on the table. The country's government denies using nerve gas. Rand Paul's statement on the USA missile strikes.
It is the only direct action against the Syrian government taken by the United States in the six-year civil war, where global attention has increasingly been drawn to the threat of Isis.
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