"The United States took a very measured step last night," Nikki Haley, the US ambassador, told the UN Security Council. "We are prepared to do more, but we hope it will not be necessary."
The US military fired 59 Tomahawk missiles from the USS Porter and USS Ross warships in the Mediterranean Sea at the al-Shayran air base near the western city of Homs early on Friday morning, which the Pentagon said was used to store chemical weapons.
Donald Trump, the US president, announced the attack from his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, where he was meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping, after at least 86 people including 33 children were killed in a nerve-gas attack in rebel-held Idlib province earlier this week.
"Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack," he said, adding: "No child of God should ever suffer such horror."
Mr Xi told Mr Trump he understood the US reaction given the deaths of children, according to Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state.
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