Although this missile attack has been described as a single strike by Pentagon officials, it clearly shows that the US administration will be much more active in the field in the coming period.
By authorizing the mission targeting a military base, the United States carried out its first direct military attack against the regime headed by Bashar al-Assad since the civil war began.
He said the United States expected Russian Federation to take a tougher stance against Syria by rethinking its alliance with Assad because "every time one of these horrific attacks occurs, it draws Russian Federation closer into some level of responsibility".
"We deplore Russia's continued defence of the Assad regime even after the chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians".
"Either Russia has been complicit or Russia has been simply incompetent", he said, referring to Moscow's apparent inability to prevent the Assad regime from using chemical weapons despite the 2013 agreement.
Trump called on "all civilized nations" to join the United States in its action.
An attack on a rebel-held area in northwestern parts of Syria killed more than 100 people, including children.
Spain demands that ETA apologise and disband
A counter-event was held yesterday in the Basque city of Vitoria which included a ceremony for "the protagonists of ETA's defeat". The weapons caches could include about 130 handguns and two tonnes of explosives, according to French anti-terrorism experts.
Local congressional Republicans generally support the cruise missile attacks Thursday night in retaliation for a Syrian government chemical attack earlier this week on civilians, but Democrats urged the president to explain his larger strategy for dealing with the Syrian civil war before taking any more military action.
If it again denies using such weapons, the Assad regime inevitably must offer its full cooperation with an worldwide investigation to uncover the truth. Those include the failure to persuade Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, legal challenges to Trump's travel ban and continuing investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the election, which Russia has denied, and into potential Trump associates' ties to Russia. United Nations -led peace talks recently resumed for the first time in 10 months. It is the first direct USA military action against Syrian government forces.
Previously, Trump had pledged to put top priority on defeating the extremist group Islamic State and suggested that the United States, with possible cooperation with Russian Federation as an option, would not necessarily target the Assad regime as its enemy.
But Trump abruptly changed his stance toward Syria.
Tonko also said the Trump administration needs to be more sympathetic to Syrian refugees, whom Trump would like to ban from entering the U.S. Trump's executive order for such a ban has been temporarily suspended by federal courts.
North Korea said on Saturday U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were "an unforgivable act of aggression" that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was "the right choice a million times over". Like the rest of the world and members of the USA -led global coalition fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Turkey also welcomed the action taken by the Trump administration, while repeating demands for more.
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