US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Russian Federation had failed to honor an agreement to to guarantee the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons.
Several lawmakers said Sunday that the decision on whether to oust Assad shouldn't entirely be up to Trump. "I don't draw conclusions of complicity at all, but clearly they've been incompetent and perhaps they've just simply been out-maneuvered by the Syrians".
"You tell the Russians, 'If you continue to bomb the people we train, we'll shoot you down, ' Graham said". He thought he could get away with it because he knew Russian Federation had his back.
"We are not saying that we are the ones who are going to effect that change".
In Saudi Arabia, the official Saudi Press Agency reported that U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken by telephone with King Salman about the U.S. missile strike on Syria. Assad did this because he thought he could get away with it.
The attack was in retaliation to a chemical weapons attack in northern Syria on Tuesday that killed over 80 civilians, including children.
The joint command center also said the presence of US troops in northern Syria where Washington has hundreds of special forces helping the multi-ethnic and religious Syrian Democratic Force, SDF, to oust the Islamic State group was "illegal" and that Washington had a longterm plan to occupy and divide the area.
"Yes, that will part of the discussions when I visit Moscow next week is to call upon Foreign Minister (Sergey) Lavrov and the Russian government to fulfill the obligation it made to the worldwide community when it agreed to be the guarantor of the elimination of the chemical weapons", he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week".
"We're hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions" between the Assad government and various rebel groups, he said.
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would not tolerate any "nuclear missile adventures" by North Korea. President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the 12-country trade agreement after his inauguration in January.
The attack prompted the United States to fire 59 cruise missiles into a Syrian air base from which it said the attack was launched.
Tillerson said both the US and China share a commitment to a denuclearized Korean peninsula and agreed to increase cooperation to achieve that goal. "(What) we are saying is, other countries have to ask themselves some hard questions", he said. "Why are we supporting this murderous regime that is committing mass murder of its own population?" But in interviews broadcast Sunday, Tillerson said he sees no reason for retaliation from Moscow because Russian Federation wasn't targeted.
"When the Trump administration uses the words regime change, they are talking about a military effort to remove Assad", Markey told Tapper.
Activists and state media said a separate airstrike by the USA -led coalition on the northern IS-held village of Hneida killed at least 14 civilians, including children.
Wei Bizhou, associate editor of World Journal North America, told VOA's Mandarin service the US strike on Syria signals it could do the same thing to North Korea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's Hassan Rouhani said in a phone call that aggressive USA actions against Syria were not permissible and violated worldwide law, the Kremlin said on Sunday. They said the USA actions against a sovereign state violatied worldwide law and called for an objective, unbiased investigation of all the circumstances of the chemical weapons incident, the statement said.
The Lebanese militant group has sent thousands of fighters in the defense of Assad's government.
But he said Turkey could not "remain silent" on the Syrian government's chemical weapons use, and he insisted that Moscow work with Ankara to establish a transitional government in Damascus.
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