Speaking during an emergency Security Council session, Haley said the U.S. was prepared to take further action in Syria but hoped it wouldn't be necessary.
Trump spent Friday in Florida, in private meetings with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Rouhani said "neutral countries should come and assess to make it clear where the chemical weapons came from".
"Even attractive babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack", he said of Tuesday's chemical weapons strike, which Western countries blame on Assad's forces.
"So, I think it's a good beginning", he said of Thursday's strike.
"It was fuzzy in terms of where do we go from here", added Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. But the Pentagon would "investigate any information that could lead in that direction", the official said. The US military said it had no evidence of either the Russians or the Syrians moving personnel or equipment off the base in the hours before the US military launched its missiles, around 840 p.m. EST.
The comments represented a departure from what Haley had said before the USA hit a Syrian air base with 59 Tomahawk missiles on Thursday in retaliation for what it said was a chemical weapons attack by Assad's forces on Syrian civilians.
A US official said Syrian planes took off from the base Friday but did not confirm the actions subsequently taken.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says regime change in Syria is one of the Trump administration's priorities in the country wracked by civil war. "He will visit Moscow as planned and, following the G7 meeting, will be able to deliver that clear and co-ordinated message to the Russians".
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Both Syria and Russian Federation condemned the move Friday as an act of "aggression".
The channel was established in late 2015 after Russian Federation entered Syria's conflict to prop up President Bashar al-Assad. The joint command center also said the presence of U.S troops in northern Syria where Washington has hundreds of special forces helping the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to oust Daesh was "illegal" and that Washington had a long-term plan to occupy the area.
Speaking at the same U.N. Security Council session, Russia's deputy U.N. envoy offered a scathing rejoinder to the US actions.
At the United Nations, Russia's deputy ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov, strongly criticized what he called the U.S. "The consequences of this for regional and global stability could be extremely serious".
According to Syria's opposition-run health authority, 89 people, including 33 children and 18 women, died in the suspected nerve agent attack in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday. He said years of previous attempts to change Assad's behavior had all failed, leading to continuation of the Syrian civil war and a subsequent refugee crisis that in destabilizing the region threatens the United States and its allies.
In the hours leading up to Trump's decision to order the strikes, Tillerson was among the most forward-leaning of Trump's top aides in suggesting the USA would deliver an "appropriate response".
President Donald Trump, who said he had a change of mind about Syria after the chemical attack, ordered the USA military to take out the airfield by cruise missiles.
As the administration and its provisional band of interventionist boosters pointed out Friday morning, the previous night's missile strike was largely symbolic, a limited and proportional affair created to send Assad-and the world-a message.
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