Iran’s Rouhani wants chemical attack in Syria investigated

In a statement released by the British Foreign Ministry, Johnson condemned Russia’s continued defense of the Assad regime “even after the chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians”.

The US strikes hit the government-controlled Shayrat air base in central Syria, where US officials say the Syrian military planes that dropped the chemicals had taken off.

“President Assad bears sole responsibility for this development”.

Syrian regime media reported nine civilians dead at the military site, including four children.

They added that “France and Germany, together with their partners and within the framework of the United Nations, will continue their efforts to hold President Assad responsible for his criminal deeds”.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Advisor HR McMaster painted the strike both as a specific response to a specific breach of chemical weapons norms and as a warning to the world at large that Trump and America should not be messed with.

A Saturday airstrike by the USA -led coalition killed at least 21 people, including a woman and her six kids on a boat in the Euphrates River, according to activists.

“I think it showed a dictator”, Hostin said.

But he said the United States expected Russian Federation to take a tougher stance against Syria by rethinking its alliance with al-Assad because “every time one of these horrific attacks occurs, it draws Russian Federation closer into some level of responsibility”.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is supposed to visit Russian Federation next week, said he was “disappointed” but “not surprised” by Russia’s angry reaction to the missile strikes.

The hotline between the two armies was set up soon after Russian Federation entered Syria’s civil war in late 2015 to support President Bashar al-Assad.

“Within a week, Trump’s Admin went from asserting they wouldn’t intervene to launching Tomahawk missiles against Assad”.

Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, canceled plans Saturday to visit Moscow, just hours before he was due to depart London, as tensions escalated between the US and Russian Federation over Syria.

The chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday triggered a US missile attack two days later that struck a Syrian air base in central Syria killing nine people.

One person was killed and three others were wounded in the strike on Khan Sheikhoun, the report said.

Two senior US military officials speaking to reporters on background at the Pentagon laid out the justification for the strike against the Syrian regime, which saw two USA destroyers launch 59 Tomahawk missiles at a military airbase in Al-Shayrat in western Syria.

He said he would call on Russian Federation “to fulfill the obligation it made to the global community when it agreed to be the guarantor of the elimination of the chemical weapons, and why Russian Federation has not been able to achieve that is unclear to me”.

By this point, the first of 59 missiles already had started to rain down on the Assad airbase alleged to have been used to carry out this week’s deadly chemical attack.

Lindsey Graham and John McCain, two senators who have called repeatedly for intervention, said it should be a first step to taking Mr Al Assad’s air force out of the war.

On Friday, hours after the USA missile strike, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Western allegations were “bogus”.