The U.S. strike on a Syrian air base came in response to the Assad regime chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun, Idlib province, killing some 100 civilians and wounding hundreds of others, mostly children.
The surprise strike - on the 77th day of Donald Trump's presidency - saw USA forces in the Mediterranean strike the Shayrat military airfield early on Friday.
Noting that investigations have confirmed that "the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons against its own people multiple times" in the past, she said that Russian Federation "bears considerable responsibility" for Assad's use of chemical weapons.
Damascus and Moscow denied Syrian forces were behind the gas attack but Western countries dismissed their explanation that chemicals leaked from a rebel weapons depot after an air strike.
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Graham also suggested that Trump has the authority, without authorization from Congress, to send in additional troops and hit Assad again for using chemical weapons.
Syrian army forces had been losing ground across the country until Russian Federation intervened militarily in September 2015, propping up Mr Assad and protecting its own interests in the region. "So, really, now what happens depends on how everyone responds to what happened in Syria, and make sure that we start moving towards a political solution, and we start finding peace in that area".
The two officials agreed to continue the discussion about Syria in person, the statement said.
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Russian Federation is to blame for "every civilian death" in the chemical weapons attack last week in Syria, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has claimed.
McCain continued to stand by the president's decision and said in interviews that Trump's military actions could mean another chance at uniting America, on Friday.
Iran's president Hassan Rouhani argued the move meant "all the terrorists in Syria are celebrating this U.S. attack".
He asserted that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons on civilians several times.
Referring to its defense of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the group warned that they would support Syria and its people "with all means that we have".
"You saw this awful tragedy on innocent people, a lot of them children, and the first reaction from Russian Federation wasn't 'how frightful, ' it wasn't 'how could they do this, ' it wasn't 'how did this happen, ' it was: 'Assad didn't do it.' Why was that the reaction?"
Russian minister for foreign affairs Sergei Lavrov and USA secretary of state Rex Tillerson spoke by phone on Saturday about the situation in Syria after U.S. strikes on a Syrian air base, the Russian foreign ministry has said in a statement.
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