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All Jack Reynolds wanted for his 105th birthday was to ride a roller coaster.

On Thursday, Reynolds, of Chesterfield, England, became the oldest man in the world to ride a non-inversion roller coaster. He was enthralled as he took the record-breaking ride with his 56-year-old daughter Jayne.
Read: Woman Gets the Thrill of Her Life as Boyfriend Proposes on a Roller Coaster
"I was amazed - really amazed," Reynolds told Good Morning Britain following the ride on the Twistosaurus at Flamingo Land theme park in Malton.

He was also surprised with a birthday cake bearing 105 candles - only two of which were lit - and blown out by the great-grandfather.
Read: 113-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, the Oldest Man in the World, Has Bar Mitzvah 100 Years Later
According to Guinness World Records, his roller coaster ride was all in an attempt to raise money for a local air ambulance charity.

Reynolds' record-breaking roller coaster ride is actually his second Guinness title. Last year, at 104, he became the oldest person to receive their first tattoo.
Watch: Meet the Visionaries Constructing Roller Coasters - in Their Own Backyards

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All Jack Reynolds wanted for his 105th birthday was to ride a roller coaster. On Thursday, Reynolds, of Chesterfield, England, became the oldest man in the world to ride a non-inversion roller coaster. He was enthralled as he took the record-breaking ride with his 56-year-old daughter Jayne.

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The wall along the Mexican border doesn't have to be made of boring concrete slabs.

It might be a "smart wall" filed with fiber optic cables designed to detect anyone trying to climb over or tunnel underneath it. Or it could resemble a medieval castle, with a notched top and turrets. It could be made of solar panels, or even be a work of art.

These are among the ideas submitted to the Department of Homeland Security, which is considering bids to build a barrier of some kind between Mexico and the United States.

This round of bids is actually to build a prototype for a wall, the first step in President Donald Trump's much repeated promise to build a border wall. Next, DHS will narrow down the list and request a handful of prototypes. The department declined to say how many proposals were submitted, but several candidates shared their plans with CNNMoney.

One of the more straightforward proposals comes from Quantum Logistics, which has built security walls for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its pitch is to build a relatively simple wall with concrete slabs that are reinforced with steel bars. It would look something like the sound barriers along some U.S. highways.

DarkPulse Technologies wants to build a wall that has fiber optics embedded, in order detect attempts to tunnel underneath, climb over or breach the wall. DHS guidelines call for all wall submissions to go at least six feet underground to deter tunneling. But CEO Dennis O'Leary said that's just not enough, and points out that some existing border tunnels are as much as 80 feet underground.

"A six-foot foundation -- a couple of guys with a shovel can easily defeat that," he said.

The proposal from Crisis Resolution Security Services of Clarence, Illinois is inspired by the Great Wall of China and other ancient walls. It calls for a 30 foot dirt berm leading up to the wall's base, with a 26-foot wall on top of that. It will also have a four-foot safety rail along the top, so tourists can walk or even drive on the top of the wall.

"The wall will become a symbol of the defense of the American nation and culture, just as [the Roman Empire's] monumental wall defended the limits of the Western civilization," said the proposal.

Two proposals call for a wall that's covered on the southern side with solar panels, and has panels on the top that an be tilted during the day to capture the greatest amount of sunlight. Both suggest selling the electricity that the solar panels generate to offset the cost of the wall.

"Talking with young people, some of Spanish descent, they say if the wall is going to be built, they want it to be green," said Thomas Gleason, whose firm authored one of the bids.

Another solar wall proposal comes from a company called Advanced Warning Systems.

Some of the proposals submitted to DHS are more like political statements than practical suggestions for a barrier.

A group called Otra Nation, which is a collective of engineers, architects and designers, calls for the whole border area to be run jointly by both nations. Instead of erecting any kind of barrier, its plan calls for an elevated high-speed hyperloop that would stretch the length of the current border.

Another proposal is for a series of art installations involving tombstones, lighthouses and pipe organs playing music. The project was "submitted as a counterpoint" to the proposed wall, said Jennifer Meridian, its lead artist and designer.

CNNMoney (New York) First published April 7, 2017: 11:57 AM ET

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Trump's Mexican border wall: See the proposals

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The wall along the Mexican border doesn't have to be made of boring concrete slabs.

It might be a "smart wall" filed with fiber optic cables designed to detect anyone trying to climb over or tunnel underneath it. Or it could resemble a medieval castle, with a notched top and turrets. It could be made of solar panels, or even be a work of art.

These are among the ideas submitted to the Department of Homeland Security, which is considering bids to build a barrier of some kind between Mexico and the United States.

This round of bids is actually to build a prototype for a wall, the first step in President Donald Trump's much repeated promise to build a border wall. Next, DHS will narrow down the list and request a handful of prototypes. The department declined to say how many proposals were submitted, but several candidates shared their plans with CNNMoney.

One of the more straightforward proposals comes from Quantum Logistics, which has built security walls for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its pitch is to build a relatively simple wall with concrete slabs that are reinforced with steel bars. It would look something like the sound barriers along some U.S. highways.

DarkPulse Technologies wants to build a wall that has fiber optics embedded, in order detect attempts to tunnel underneath, climb over or breach the wall. DHS guidelines call for all wall submissions to go at least six feet underground to deter tunneling. But CEO Dennis O'Leary said that's just not enough, and points out that some existing border tunnels are as much as 80 feet underground.

"A six-foot foundation -- a couple of guys with a shovel can easily defeat that," he said.

The proposal from Crisis Resolution Security Services of Clarence, Illinois is inspired by the Great Wall of China and other ancient walls. It calls for a 30 foot dirt berm leading up to the wall's base, with a 26-foot wall on top of that. It will also have a four-foot safety rail along the top, so tourists can walk or even drive on the top of the wall.

"The wall will become a symbol of the defense of the American nation and culture, just as [the Roman Empire's] monumental wall defended the limits of the Western civilization," said the proposal.

Two proposals call for a wall that's covered on the southern side with solar panels, and has panels on the top that an be tilted during the day to capture the greatest amount of sunlight. Both suggest selling the electricity that the solar panels generate to offset the cost of the wall.

"Talking with young people, some of Spanish descent, they say if the wall is going to be built, they want it to be green," said Thomas Gleason, whose firm authored one of the bids.

Another solar wall proposal comes from a company called Advanced Warning Systems.

Some of the proposals submitted to DHS are more like political statements than practical suggestions for a barrier.

A group called Otra Nation, which is a collective of engineers, architects and designers, calls for the whole border area to be run jointly by both nations. Instead of erecting any kind of barrier, its plan calls for an elevated high-speed hyperloop that would stretch the length of the current border.

Another proposal is for a series of art installations involving tombstones, lighthouses and pipe organs playing music. The project was "submitted as a counterpoint" to the proposed wall, said Jennifer Meridian, its lead artist and designer.

CNNMoney (New York) First published April 7, 2017: 11:57 AM ET

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All Jack Reynolds wanted for his 105th birthday was to ride a roller coaster.

On Thursday, Reynolds, of Chesterfield, England, became the oldest man in the world to ride a non-inversion roller coaster. He was enthralled as he took the record-breaking ride with his 56-year-old daughter Jayne.
Read: Woman Gets the Thrill of Her Life as Boyfriend Proposes on a Roller Coaster
"I was amazed - really amazed," Reynolds told Good Morning Britain following the ride on the Twistosaurus at Flamingo Land theme park in Malton.

He was also surprised with a birthday cake bearing 105 candles - only two of which were lit - and blown out by the great-grandfather.
Read: 113-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, the Oldest Man in the World, Has Bar Mitzvah 100 Years Later
According to Guinness World Records, his roller coaster ride was all in an attempt to raise money for a local air ambulance charity.

Reynolds' record-breaking roller coaster ride is actually his second Guinness title. Last year, at 104, he became the oldest person to receive their first tattoo.
Watch: Meet the Visionaries Constructing Roller Coasters - in Their Own Backyards

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All Jack Reynolds wanted for his 105th birthday was to ride a roller coaster. On Thursday, Reynolds, of Chesterfield, England, became the oldest man in the world to ride a non-inversion roller coaster. He was enthralled as he took the record-breaking ride with his 56-year-old daughter Jayne.

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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin was arrested Thursday in Texas for violation of his probation, per TMZ.

Boykin was under a one-year probation for fighting police in June 2016. He was then arrested in March for public intoxication and drug possession.

Eight people were reportedly injured in the car crash that led to his March arrest. Boykin was the passenger in the car while the driver was arrested for driving under the influence.
For more news, rumors and related stories about Trevone Boykin, the Seattle Seahawks and the NFL, check out the http://bleacherreport.com/mobile and Seahawksstreams on Bleacher Report's app.
He was released Thursday on a $2,500 bond but faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

The 23-year-old was an undrafted free agent out of TCU, although he latched on with the Seahawks and appeared in six games during his rookie season as the primary backup for Russell Wilson.

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One of the ideas for "trumps wall" is a "smart wall". It can detect if someone is trying to climb over the top or dig a tunnel underneath.

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The wall along the Mexican border doesn't have to be made of boring concrete slabs.

It might be a "smart wall" filed with fiber optic cables designed to detect anyone trying to climb over or tunnel underneath it. Or it could resemble a medieval castle, with a notched top and turrets. It could be made of solar panels, or even be a work of art.

These are among the ideas submitted to the Department of Homeland Security, which is considering bids to build a barrier of some kind between Mexico and the United States.

This round of bids is actually to build a prototype for a wall, the first step in President Donald Trump's much repeated promise to build a border wall. Next, DHS will narrow down the list and request a handful of prototypes. The department declined to say how many proposals were submitted, but several candidates shared their plans with CNNMoney.

One of the more straightforward proposals comes from Quantum Logistics, which has built security walls for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its pitch is to build a relatively simple wall with concrete slabs that are reinforced with steel bars. It would look something like the sound barriers along some U.S. highways.

DarkPulse Technologies wants to build a wall that has fiber optics embedded, in order detect attempts to tunnel underneath, climb over or breach the wall. DHS guidelines call for all wall submissions to go at least six feet underground to deter tunneling. But CEO Dennis O'Leary said that's just not enough, and points out that some existing border tunnels are as much as 80 feet underground.

"A six-foot foundation -- a couple of guys with a shovel can easily defeat that," he said.

The proposal from Crisis Resolution Security Services of Clarence, Illinois is inspired by the Great Wall of China and other ancient walls. It calls for a 30 foot dirt berm leading up to the wall's base, with a 26-foot wall on top of that. It will also have a four-foot safety rail along the top, so tourists can walk or even drive on the top of the wall.

"The wall will become a symbol of the defense of the American nation and culture, just as [the Roman Empire's] monumental wall defended the limits of the Western civilization," said the proposal.

Two proposals call for a wall that's covered on the southern side with solar panels, and has panels on the top that an be tilted during the day to capture the greatest amount of sunlight. Both suggest selling the electricity that the solar panels generate to offset the cost of the wall.

"Talking with young people, some of Spanish descent, they say if the wall is going to be built, they want it to be green," said Thomas Gleason, whose firm authored one of the bids.

Another solar wall proposal comes from a company called Advanced Warning Systems.

Some of the proposals submitted to DHS are more like political statements than practical suggestions for a barrier.

A group called Otra Nation, which is a collective of engineers, architects and designers, calls for the whole border area to be run jointly by both nations. Instead of erecting any kind of barrier, its plan calls for an elevated high-speed hyperloop that would stretch the length of the current border.

Another proposal is for a series of art installations involving tombstones, lighthouses and pipe organs playing music. The project was "submitted as a counterpoint" to the proposed wall, said Jennifer Meridian, its lead artist and designer.

CNNMoney (New York) First published April 7, 2017: 11:57 AM ET

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The Pentagon is looking for any evidence that the Russian government knew about or was complicit in the attack in Idlib province that killed at least 80 people and injured dozens more, a senior US defense official said.

When CNN asked about US allegations that Russia may be complicit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied via text message, "That is not true."

World leaders were sharply divided on the the missile bombardment of the Shayrat airfield, believed by the US to be the base for warplanes that carried out the chemical attack on a rebel-held town on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the strike as "act of aggression" and said it violated international law.

Russia earlier this week denied a chemical weapons attack took place in Syria. It said the deaths in Khan Sheikhoun were caused by a Syrian regime airstrike on a rebel-controlled chemical weapons factory on the ground.

Western leaders backed the US action, saying Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had brought it on himself.

Key developments

Pentagon probing possible Russia involvement in attack

Syrian airbase suffers "extensive damage" in strike.

Nikki Haley to UN: US 'prepared to do more' in Syria

Trump acted after dozens killed in chemical attack on Tuesday.

Western allies offer strong backing, saying the gas attack cannot go unpunished.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said US strike violated international law.

The US military official said the Pentagon was examining specifically whether a Russian warplane had bombed a hospital in Khan Sheikhoun five hours after the initial chemical attack, with the aim of destroying evidence.

A US defense official says intelligence shows a Russian drone flew over the hospital in Idlib that was treating victims of the chemical attack, prior to the site being later bombed by an unknown aircraft.

The Russians operate drones in the area routinely so the Pentagon cannot be certain the drone operator even knew what was happening, but the drone was a Russian asset. The US military has a variety of classified technical means to determine who is operating aircraft in the region.

Russia said the deaths in Khan Sheikhoun were caused by a Syrian regime airstrike on a rebel-controlled chemcial weapons factory on the ground, but experts have dismissed the claim as fanciful.

Images of the horrific aftermath of the attack prompted Trump to act. Early Friday morning, Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from US warships in the eastern Mediterranean towards the Shayrat airfield, which is also an important base for Russian forces supporting the Syrian regime. Fifty-nine of 60 missiles launched hit their intended targets, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said, with one missile landing in the water.

Nine people, including four children, in two villages were killed in the strike, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. It was not clear whether the figure included the six deaths announced earlier by the Syrian military or was in addition to those.

Approximately 20 Syrian regime planes were destroyed in the US strike, according to two US senior military officials.

Putin denounced the US action as "aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law under a far-fetched pretext." He said the strikes "dealt a serious blow to Russian-US relations" and that their aim was to distract from the civilian deaths from coalition airstrikes in Iraq, a statement from his press office said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of seeking a pretext for regime change. "I am particularly disappointed by the way this damages US-Russia relations," he said, but added that he didn't think it would "lead to an irreversible situation."

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the United States had carried out an "unjust and unabashed assault" against Syria which "shows nothing but short-sightedness, a narrowness of vision and a blindness to political and military realities."

He also said the attack had increased the regime's resolve to "crush" terrorists in Syria -- the term it uses for all opposition forces.

A statement from Syria's general military command said the strikes caused "extensive material damage" and undermined counterterror operations by the Syrian army.

The operation "makes the United States of America a partner of ISIS, Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations who -- since the first day of this unjust war on Syria -- have been attacking Syrian army positions and Syrian military bases."

Syrian TV aired footage of the aftermath of the strike that showed smoke still rising up from the base.

Maj. Issam al-Reis, spokesman for the opposition Free Syrian Army's Southern Front, welcomed the US action and called for "the destruction of all tools of murder that Bashar al Assad's regime uses."

The strike was the first direct military action taken by the US against the Assad regime since the start of the country's six-year civil war. It represents a substantial escalation of the US military campaign in the region.

Pentagon: 'Severe damage'

The Pentagon said the strike, which began at 8:40 p.m. ET Thursday (3:40 a.m. local time Friday), targeted aircraft, storage facilities and other logistical materials.

An initial battle damage assessment from the strikes was that 58 of the 59 missiles "severely degraded or destroyed" their intended targets, according to a US defense official.

The US military gave the Russian military one hour's notice of the strikes, according to a senior US official. US military operations in Syria have been temporarily "adjusted" to ensure the protection of US forces on the ground, the official said. On any given day there could be up to 1,250 US troops inside Syria fighting ISIS, according to US officials.

Support from US allies

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who said he was following the situation in Syria "with grave concern," urged restraint and called for the Security Council to unite and exercise its "responsibility for international peace and security."

The council's 15 members failed Thursday night to reach agreement on a a new draft resolution against the Syrian government circulated by US, UK and French diplomats following Tuesday's chemical attack. Russia has repeatedly vetoed past UN Security Council resolutions on Syria.

There were repeated calls for a political solution at a Security Council meeting Friday.

UK Ambassador to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft said his country backs the airstrikes "because war crimes have consequences and the greatest war criminal of all, Bashar al-Assad, has now been put on notice."

He said Russia "has given Assad everything he could dream of" -- such as vetoes in the Security Council -- but Assad has ignored and defied Russian requests to "obey a ceasefire and not to gas his people.

"Russia sits here today humiliated, by its failure to bring to heel a puppet dictator, entirely propped up by Russia itself and Hezbollah and Iran."

Vladimir Safronkov, Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, defended his country's position on the strike, as a "flagrant violation of peace." He also slammed Rycroft's criticisms of Russia's government as "not diplomatic" and "lies."

"We strongly condemn the illegitimate action by the US. The consequences of this for regional and international stability could be extremely serious."

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley defended the strikes as proportionate. "The United States took a very measured step last night," she said. "We are prepared to do more. But we hope that will not be necessary. It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution."

'Dangerous episode'

Matthew Chance, CNN's senior international correspondent based in Moscow, said the latest strikes "are an immensely dangerous episode in the relationship between Russia and the United States, not least because they potentially bring into contact Russian forces who are on the ground in Syria and the US forces."

Russia was warned of the attack before it took place. Nevertheless, Chance pointed out, Russia did not choose to use surface-to-air missiles systems in place in Syria that are "fully capable of intercepting cruise missiles if they so choose to" which, he said, "implies a degree of tacit Russian consent to the strikes."

In the wake of the strike, Russia said it was suspending use of a communications channel aimed at minimizing risks of in-flight incidents between the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Russian aircraft.

But on Friday, a senior military official told CNN the Russian military has not suspended "the deconfliction channel." The official said the channel was used just after the US strike on the Shayrat airfield and again Friday. No information on the content of the communications was given.

US military spokesman Col. John Dorrian said the "deconfliction channel" had been effective and urged its continued use.

The Russian Defense Ministry also announced plans to bolster the effectiveness of its air defense system in Syria.

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The Pentagon is looking for any evidence that the Russian government knew about or was complicit in the attack in Idlib province that killed at least 80 people and injured dozens more, a senior US defense official said. When CNN asked about US allegations that Russia may be complicit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied via text message, "That is not true."

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Local authorities in northern India rescued a girl after she was living "comfortably" with monkeys in the jungle for years.

Woodcutters alerted police after first spotting the young girl running with monkeys in a remote nature preserve about eight weeks ago, reports say.

"They said the girl was naked and was very comfortable in the company of monkeys. When they tried to rescue the girl, they were chased away by the monkeys," police officer Dinesh Tripathi told AP Thursday.

RELATED: Check out photos of some pretty mischievous monkeys

And Tripathi says rescuing the girl was not an easy task for the officer.

"When he called the girl, the monkeys attacked him but he was able to rescue the girl," Tripathi said. "He sped away with her in his police car while the monkeys gave chase.

Immediately after, she was rushed to a hospital in New Delhi, where doctors say she had begun to shed feral traits she acquired from her primal pals and was "becoming human."

Believed to be around age 10, reports say the young girl was naked and unable to speak when police found her in January.

Once she was placed into hospital care, she was said to be running on her arms and legs like an animal and eating off of the floor, D.K. Singh, chief medical superintendent of the government-run hospital told AP.
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Now, he says, she has started to walk upright like a human and eats with her hands.

"She is still not able to speak, but understands whatever you tell her and even smiles," said Singh.

Singh says police are still trying to find who the girl's parents are and how she got into the reserve.

But until she is identified, Singh says, the girl will reside in a juvenile home.

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The United States launched a direct assault against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday by firing a barrage of cruise missiles at an air base in response to a chemical weapons attack earlier this week that killed dozens of civilians.

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Two Syrian jets on Friday took off from the air base that was hit by U.S. missiles and carried out strikes on areas under ISIS control in the countryside of eastern Homs province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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The Syrian government responded to Thursday night's U.S. aistrike on its Shayrat Air Base in Homs province by quickly fixing the base and allowing the two planes to take off from there, the human rights organization said.

A U.S. official said Syrian planes took off from the airfield Friday but did not confirm the airstrikes.

The official noted that as many as 20 Syrian aircraft were destroyed in Thursday's airstrikes but added that the missiles did not target every aircraft at the base and that the runway was untouched.

The departures came after U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, warned that the United States is "prepared to do more" in Syria, one day after U.S. warships fired a barrage of cruise missiles at the Syrian government air base.

"The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more, but we hope that will not be necessary," Haley said Friday during a special open session of the U.N. Security Council devoted to discussing Syria.

The United States launched the direct assault against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in response to a chemical weapons attack earlier this week that killed dozens of civilians in northern Syria.

Haley accused Assad's regime of carrying out Tuesday's horrific attack in Idlib province, saying this "fully justified" the U.S. government's decision to strike the Syrian air base.

"The moral stain of the Assad regime could no longer go unanswered," she said.

U.S. officials said a total 59 tomahawk missiles were launched from destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the Mediterranean Sea over a half-hour span beginning at 7:36 p.m. ET on Thursday. The strikes were aimed at the Shayrat Air Base in Syria's Homs province, where an aircraft carrying the chemical weapons in Tuesday's attack is believed to have taken off.

"The intent here wasn't just to punish; it was deter future use," retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, an ABC News contributor and the former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command who turned down the role of national security adviser after Michael Flynn's resignation, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday.

The Shayrat Air Base has been one of Russia's main airfields in Syria, serving as a forward operating base for Russian attack helicopters to support Assad regime offensives in Homs province amid Syria's ongoing conflict.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States did not discuss the military strike with Russian President Vladimir Putin or political leadership in Moscow either before or after it occurred. But the U.S. military said it communicated with its Russian counterpart to minimize any chance of Russian causalities, particularly any Russians operating out of the targeted air base.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who blamed Syria's leader for the latest chemical weapons attack, said on Thursday night that the airstrikes were in the "vital national security interest" of the United States.

The aftermath

A senior U.S. military official said the 59 missiles reached their intended targets, and approximately 20 aircraft were struck. The official also said that there were no Russian aircraft at the base at the time, nor was there any indication that Syria had detected incoming missiles before they struck.

According to Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis, the missiles targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air defense systems and radars.

The time of the airstrike was chosen to minimize civilian casualties, Davis said.

The Shayrat Air Base housed chemical weapons prior to 2013 but it is unclear if weapons are still stored at the facility.

A U.S. official told ABC News the missiles did not target any suspected chemical weapons stockpiles at the air base because that was not the intent of the operation.

In an interview Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Col. Steve Ganyard, an ABC News contributor and a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot who served as former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Political-Military Affair, said that "the message has been sent."

"We'll just have to see how Assad reacts to this," Ganyard added.

Syria reacts

The Syrian government swiftly denounced what it described as "illegal action targeting one of our air bases against our sovereignty," the first time the U.S. military intentionally targeted Assad's forces since the beginning of Syria's ongoing civil war.

The Syrian president's office said in a statement Friday that the United States "naively followed a false and lying propaganda campaign" that led it to "carry out this irresponsible recklessness."

"The presidency of the Arab Syrian republic asserts that what America carried out was an irresponsible act that only reflects short-sightedness, a narrow perspective and political and military blindness toward reality," the statement said. "The fact that the United States of America has committed this shameful act by targeting an airport of a sovereign state clearly demonstrates, once again, what Syria has said and continues to say -- that changing administrations doesn't change the deep policies of this government, namely, the targeting of countries, the subjugation of people and an attempt to dominate the world."

The Syrian army delivered a statement on state-run television on Friday, saying six people were killed in the U.S. airstrikes. The Syrian army went on to describe the United States as "the initiators of the ongoing dirty war against our people."

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll has increased to eight.

Russia reacts

Russia, a staunch ally of the Syrian government, also had harsh words for the United States, calling the military airstrike a "clear act of aggression" that would "further undermine Russo-American relations."

The presence of military personnel from the U.S. and other countries in Syria without the permission of the government "or a resolution of the U.N. Security Council is a gross, clear and in no way justified violation of international law," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. "If before it was explained as a mission in the battle against terrorism, now it is a clear act of aggression against a sovereign Syria. The taking of these actions by the U.S. today yet further undermines Russo-American relations."

The Russian foreign ministry said it was calling for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting and that Moscow was suspending its current memorandum of understanding with the U.S. military that was aimed at avoiding air collisions in Syria.

Both Russia and the United States have a large air presence in Syria and had established so-called "de-confliction" channels to avoid collisions of their respective aircraft.

The Russian foreign ministry also suggested that the U.S. decision to strike the Syrian regime was made in advance of Tuesday's chemical weapons attack, calling it "a pretext for a demonstration of force."

The Russian defense ministry claimed only 23 U.S. missiles hit the Syrian air base, saying it's unclear where the others landed. The airstrikes destroyed a supply dump, a training building, the canteen, six planes that were under repair in hangars and a radar station. The ministry claimed the runways and operational Syrian aircraft were not damaged.

Citing the Syrian military, the Russian defense ministry said four Syrian soldiers were killed and six suffered burns while putting out fires caused by the explosion. Two Syrian soldiers remain unaccounted for.

"As such, the military effectiveness of the American massed missile strike on the Syrian airbase was extremely low," the Russian defense ministry said in a statement Friday.

What prompted the U.S. to strike?

At least 87 civilians, including 31 children and 20 women, have died from a chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province on Tuesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Harrowing footage from the scene showed victims gasping for air and being hosed off, as well as the lifeless faces of those who didn't survive. It's the worst chemical attack the war-torn country has witnessed since 2013.

Trump on Wednesday firmly condemned the "heinous actions" in Syria, telling reporters that the attack "crossed a lot of lines for me."

"I do change, and I am flexible, and I'm proud of that flexibility. And I will tell you that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me," the U.S. president said during a press conference at the White House with Jordan's King Abdullah II. "It's already happened, that my attitude towards Syria and Assad has changed very much."

After conducting autopsies on victims who were brought to Turkish hospitals for treatment, Turkey's health ministry confirmed Thursday that the patients had been exposed to sarin gas, a banned nerve agent.

A U.S. official also said the symptoms exhibited by the victims pointed to sarin gas.

The U.S. official told ABC News that a Syrian military fixed-wing aircraft dropped the chemical weapons on what was an underground hospital in the town run by an al-Qaeda affiliated rebel group formerly known as Al-Nusra Front.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem firmly denied that his government used chemical weapons in Tuesday's deadly attack. He told reporters at a televised press conference in the capital of Damascus on Thursday that "the Syrian Arab Army has never used chemical weapons and will not use chemical weapons against Syrians and even against terrorists."

Moallem said rebels linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS have brought chemicals from Iraq and Turkey into the country and have been stockpiling them in residential areas.

On Wednesday, Russia's Defense Ministry blamed Syrian rebels for the attack, saying that the Syrian air force struck a warehouse where opposition militants were storing chemical weapons - a statement that contradicts testimony from residents, doctors and activists on the ground.

Syria's ongoing conflict

Tuesday's chemical weapons attack is the latest atrocity in Syria's ruinous six-year war.

What started as a local protest movement in Syria's southern city of Dara'a expanded into a full-fledged civil war by 2012. ISIS, which grew out of al-Qaeda in Iraq, took root in northern and eastern Syria in 2013 after seizing swaths of territory in neighboring Iraq. The jihadist group is fighting to overthrow Assad's regime and establish a caliphate.

The Syrian Civil War has pulled in the United States, Russia, Iran and almost all of Syria's neighbors. It has become the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, according to the U.N.

What's next?

In an administration briefing to the Senate on Friday, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not elaborate on any long-term plans or strategy the administration has for Syria, according to members in the briefing.

"There's not a plan of further engagement right now," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters. "This was a very surgical response to chemical weapons use."

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said of the briefing, "It was fuzzy in terms of where do we go from here. Essentially, the vice president's going to be contacting Congress within the next few days, give us an indication of where their heads are at [in the White House]."

While many lawmakers argued that the airstrikes were covered by previous war authorizations, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., wants Congress to consider a new authorization for the use of military force after the Easter recess.

"We should have a huge constitutional debate as well as the debate over war," he said today. "No serious person believes most of the wars that we're now involved with had anything to do with 9/11."

From Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin today said additional sanctions will be imposed against Syria "in the near future," calling the sanctions a "very important tool" to stop "this sort of activity."

Haley, who is acting as the president of the U.N. Security Council for the month of April, denied a request from Bolivia for a closed session on Syria, insisting that "any country that chooses to defend the atrocities of the Syrian regime will have to do so in full public view."

During Friday's U.N. Security Council open session, Russian deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Vladimir Safronkov, condemned the "illegitimate" U.S. military action on the Syrian air base, calling it a "flagrant violation" of international law. Safronkov called on the United States to instead "work together" with Syria and Russia to combat terrorism in the country.

"We call on the United States to immediately cease its aggression," Safronkov said.

Haley spoke next, and she didn't mince words in rebuking those who support Assad's regime.

"Every time Assad has crossed the line of human decency, Russia has stood beside him," Haley said. "The world is waiting for the Russian government to act responsibly in Syria."

She also suggested that Russia may have known about Syria's illicit chemical weapons supply and may have even had a hand in Tuesday's attack.

"Russia's supposed to be a guarantor of the removal of chemical weapons from Syria. Think about that," Haley said. "Russia is supposed to have removed all the chemical weapons from Syria. But obviously that has not happened."

She continued, "As innocent Syrians continue to be murdered in chemical attacks, let's think about the possible reasons for Russia's failure. It could be that Russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in Syria. It could be that Russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. Or it could be that the Assad regime is playing the Russians for fools."

Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, said the United States acted "illegally against the Syrian Arab Army" and "without genuine knowledge of what happened" in the chemical weapons attack, or "without identifying who was responsible."

Jaafari added that U.S. airstrikes harm counterterrorism efforts.

ABC News' Benjamin Gittleson, Luis Martinez, Alexander Marquardt, Alexander Mallin, Kirit Radia, Patrick Reevell, Joseph Simonetti, Daniel Trefcer and Marcus Wilford contributed to this report

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A North Carolina man found dead in 1993 was murdered by his father-in-law who confessed on the 24th anniversary of the crime, authorities said. Sydney Gregory, 32, was found bludgeoned to death in a mobile home in Seven Springs on February 7, 1993.  Authorities said Allen Deaver, 74, told them on February 7, 2017, that he killed Gregory and then set the home on fire. Deaver was arrested in Livingston Parish in Louisiana where he was living.

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A North Carolina man found dead in 1993 was murdered by his father-in-law who confessed 24 years to the day after the crime, investigators said.

Sydney Gregory, 32, was found bludgeoned to death in a mobile home in Seven Springs on February 7, 1993. Authorities said Allen Deaver, 74, told them on February 7, 2017, that he killed Gregory and then set the home on fire. Deaver was arrested in Livingston Parish in Louisiana where he was living.
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Maj. Tom Effler of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina told FoxNews.com on Friday that Deaver claimed he killed Gregory because his son-in-law had abused his wife and his children, who were 2 and 5 at the time. Gregory was married to Deaver's daughter.

Effler said the woman and the children denied ever being abused.
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WNCN-TV reported Thursday in an interview Effler said that Deaver may have wanted to clear his conscience after becoming ill and being hospitalized.

"I don't know if he wanted to try to make things right before he met his maker, or what it was, but I think his conscience was bothering him," Effler told the station.

WNCN reported that Gregory and Deaver were next-door neighbors when Gregory was killed.

Effler said investigators quizzed Deaver and his wife at the time but they were uncooperative.

Deaver and his wife soon left Wayne County and never returned, the station reported.

A Wayne County grand jury indicted Deaver on Wednesday on a charge of first-degree murder. Effler says deputies from the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office arrested him on a fugitive warrant Wednesday, and he's being held in Louisiana without bond at the parish jail.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin was arrested Thursday in Texas for violation of his probation, per TMZ.

Boykin was under a one-year probation for fighting police in June 2016. He was then arrested in March for public intoxication and drug possession.

Eight people were reportedly injured in the car crash that led to his March arrest. Boykin was the passenger in the car while the driver was arrested for driving under the influence.
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He was released Thursday on a $2,500 bond but faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

The 23-year-old was an undrafted free agent out of TCU, although he latched on with the Seahawks and appeared in six games during his rookie season as the primary backup for Russell Wilson.

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Seattle Seahawks Rob Goldberg Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images @TheRobGoldberg Twitter Logo Featured Columnist Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin was arrested Thursday in Texas for violation of his probation, per TMZ. Boykin was under a one-year probation for fighting police in June 2016. He was then arrested in March for public intoxication and drug possession.

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US launches first strike against Assad;Syria decries ´dirty war: The United States launched a direct assault against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday by firing a barrage of cruise missiles at an air base in response to a chemical weapons attack earlier this week that killed dozens of civilians.

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Two Syrian jets on Friday took off from the air base that was hit by U.S. missiles and carried out strikes on areas under ISIS control in the countryside of eastern Homs province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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The Syrian government responded to Thursday night's U.S. aistrike on its Shayrat Air Base in Homs province by quickly fixing the base and allowing the two planes to take off from there, the human rights organization said.

A U.S. official said Syrian planes took off from the airfield Friday but did not confirm the airstrikes.

The official noted that as many as 20 Syrian aircraft were destroyed in Thursday's airstrikes but added that the missiles did not target every aircraft at the base and that the runway was untouched.

The departures came after U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, warned that the United States is "prepared to do more" in Syria, one day after U.S. warships fired a barrage of cruise missiles at the Syrian government air base.

"The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more, but we hope that will not be necessary," Haley said Friday during a special open session of the U.N. Security Council devoted to discussing Syria.

The United States launched the direct assault against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in response to a chemical weapons attack earlier this week that killed dozens of civilians in northern Syria.

Haley accused Assad's regime of carrying out Tuesday's horrific attack in Idlib province, saying this "fully justified" the U.S. government's decision to strike the Syrian air base.

"The moral stain of the Assad regime could no longer go unanswered," she said.

U.S. officials said a total 59 tomahawk missiles were launched from destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the Mediterranean Sea over a half-hour span beginning at 7:36 p.m. ET on Thursday. The strikes were aimed at the Shayrat Air Base in Syria's Homs province, where an aircraft carrying the chemical weapons in Tuesday's attack is believed to have taken off.

"The intent here wasn't just to punish; it was deter future use," retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, an ABC News contributor and the former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command who turned down the role of national security adviser after Michael Flynn's resignation, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday.

The Shayrat Air Base has been one of Russia's main airfields in Syria, serving as a forward operating base for Russian attack helicopters to support Assad regime offensives in Homs province amid Syria's ongoing conflict.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States did not discuss the military strike with Russian President Vladimir Putin or political leadership in Moscow either before or after it occurred. But the U.S. military said it communicated with its Russian counterpart to minimize any chance of Russian causalities, particularly any Russians operating out of the targeted air base.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who blamed Syria's leader for the latest chemical weapons attack, said on Thursday night that the airstrikes were in the "vital national security interest" of the United States.

The aftermath

A senior U.S. military official said the 59 missiles reached their intended targets, and approximately 20 aircraft were struck. The official also said that there were no Russian aircraft at the base at the time, nor was there any indication that Syria had detected incoming missiles before they struck.

According to Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis, the missiles targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air defense systems and radars.

The time of the airstrike was chosen to minimize civilian casualties, Davis said.

The Shayrat Air Base housed chemical weapons prior to 2013 but it is unclear if weapons are still stored at the facility.

A U.S. official told ABC News the missiles did not target any suspected chemical weapons stockpiles at the air base because that was not the intent of the operation.

In an interview Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Col. Steve Ganyard, an ABC News contributor and a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot who served as former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Political-Military Affair, said that "the message has been sent."

"We'll just have to see how Assad reacts to this," Ganyard added.

Syria reacts

The Syrian government swiftly denounced what it described as "illegal action targeting one of our air bases against our sovereignty," the first time the U.S. military intentionally targeted Assad's forces since the beginning of Syria's ongoing civil war.

The Syrian president's office said in a statement Friday that the United States "naively followed a false and lying propaganda campaign" that led it to "carry out this irresponsible recklessness."

"The presidency of the Arab Syrian republic asserts that what America carried out was an irresponsible act that only reflects short-sightedness, a narrow perspective and political and military blindness toward reality," the statement said. "The fact that the United States of America has committed this shameful act by targeting an airport of a sovereign state clearly demonstrates, once again, what Syria has said and continues to say -- that changing administrations doesn't change the deep policies of this government, namely, the targeting of countries, the subjugation of people and an attempt to dominate the world."

The Syrian army delivered a statement on state-run television on Friday, saying six people were killed in the U.S. airstrikes. The Syrian army went on to describe the United States as "the initiators of the ongoing dirty war against our people."

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll has increased to eight.

Russia reacts

Russia, a staunch ally of the Syrian government, also had harsh words for the United States, calling the military airstrike a "clear act of aggression" that would "further undermine Russo-American relations."

The presence of military personnel from the U.S. and other countries in Syria without the permission of the government "or a resolution of the U.N. Security Council is a gross, clear and in no way justified violation of international law," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. "If before it was explained as a mission in the battle against terrorism, now it is a clear act of aggression against a sovereign Syria. The taking of these actions by the U.S. today yet further undermines Russo-American relations."

The Russian foreign ministry said it was calling for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting and that Moscow was suspending its current memorandum of understanding with the U.S. military that was aimed at avoiding air collisions in Syria.

Both Russia and the United States have a large air presence in Syria and had established so-called "de-confliction" channels to avoid collisions of their respective aircraft.

The Russian foreign ministry also suggested that the U.S. decision to strike the Syrian regime was made in advance of Tuesday's chemical weapons attack, calling it "a pretext for a demonstration of force."

The Russian defense ministry claimed only 23 U.S. missiles hit the Syrian air base, saying it's unclear where the others landed. The airstrikes destroyed a supply dump, a training building, the canteen, six planes that were under repair in hangars and a radar station. The ministry claimed the runways and operational Syrian aircraft were not damaged.

Citing the Syrian military, the Russian defense ministry said four Syrian soldiers were killed and six suffered burns while putting out fires caused by the explosion. Two Syrian soldiers remain unaccounted for.

"As such, the military effectiveness of the American massed missile strike on the Syrian airbase was extremely low," the Russian defense ministry said in a statement Friday.

What prompted the U.S. to strike?

At least 87 civilians, including 31 children and 20 women, have died from a chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province on Tuesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Harrowing footage from the scene showed victims gasping for air and being hosed off, as well as the lifeless faces of those who didn't survive. It's the worst chemical attack the war-torn country has witnessed since 2013.

Trump on Wednesday firmly condemned the "heinous actions" in Syria, telling reporters that the attack "crossed a lot of lines for me."

"I do change, and I am flexible, and I'm proud of that flexibility. And I will tell you that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me," the U.S. president said during a press conference at the White House with Jordan's King Abdullah II. "It's already happened, that my attitude towards Syria and Assad has changed very much."

After conducting autopsies on victims who were brought to Turkish hospitals for treatment, Turkey's health ministry confirmed Thursday that the patients had been exposed to sarin gas, a banned nerve agent.

A U.S. official also said the symptoms exhibited by the victims pointed to sarin gas.

The U.S. official told ABC News that a Syrian military fixed-wing aircraft dropped the chemical weapons on what was an underground hospital in the town run by an al-Qaeda affiliated rebel group formerly known as Al-Nusra Front.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem firmly denied that his government used chemical weapons in Tuesday's deadly attack. He told reporters at a televised press conference in the capital of Damascus on Thursday that "the Syrian Arab Army has never used chemical weapons and will not use chemical weapons against Syrians and even against terrorists."

Moallem said rebels linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS have brought chemicals from Iraq and Turkey into the country and have been stockpiling them in residential areas.

On Wednesday, Russia's Defense Ministry blamed Syrian rebels for the attack, saying that the Syrian air force struck a warehouse where opposition militants were storing chemical weapons - a statement that contradicts testimony from residents, doctors and activists on the ground.

Syria's ongoing conflict

Tuesday's chemical weapons attack is the latest atrocity in Syria's ruinous six-year war.

What started as a local protest movement in Syria's southern city of Dara'a expanded into a full-fledged civil war by 2012. ISIS, which grew out of al-Qaeda in Iraq, took root in northern and eastern Syria in 2013 after seizing swaths of territory in neighboring Iraq. The jihadist group is fighting to overthrow Assad's regime and establish a caliphate.

The Syrian Civil War has pulled in the United States, Russia, Iran and almost all of Syria's neighbors. It has become the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, according to the U.N.

What's next?

In an administration briefing to the Senate on Friday, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not elaborate on any long-term plans or strategy the administration has for Syria, according to members in the briefing.

"There's not a plan of further engagement right now," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters. "This was a very surgical response to chemical weapons use."

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said of the briefing, "It was fuzzy in terms of where do we go from here. Essentially, the vice president's going to be contacting Congress within the next few days, give us an indication of where their heads are at [in the White House]."

While many lawmakers argued that the airstrikes were covered by previous war authorizations, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., wants Congress to consider a new authorization for the use of military force after the Easter recess.

"We should have a huge constitutional debate as well as the debate over war," he said today. "No serious person believes most of the wars that we're now involved with had anything to do with 9/11."

From Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin today said additional sanctions will be imposed against Syria "in the near future," calling the sanctions a "very important tool" to stop "this sort of activity."

Haley, who is acting as the president of the U.N. Security Council for the month of April, denied a request from Bolivia for a closed session on Syria, insisting that "any country that chooses to defend the atrocities of the Syrian regime will have to do so in full public view."

During Friday's U.N. Security Council open session, Russian deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Vladimir Safronkov, condemned the "illegitimate" U.S. military action on the Syrian air base, calling it a "flagrant violation" of international law. Safronkov called on the United States to instead "work together" with Syria and Russia to combat terrorism in the country.

"We call on the United States to immediately cease its aggression," Safronkov said.

Haley spoke next, and she didn't mince words in rebuking those who support Assad's regime.

"Every time Assad has crossed the line of human decency, Russia has stood beside him," Haley said. "The world is waiting for the Russian government to act responsibly in Syria."

She also suggested that Russia may have known about Syria's illicit chemical weapons supply and may have even had a hand in Tuesday's attack.

"Russia's supposed to be a guarantor of the removal of chemical weapons from Syria. Think about that," Haley said. "Russia is supposed to have removed all the chemical weapons from Syria. But obviously that has not happened."

She continued, "As innocent Syrians continue to be murdered in chemical attacks, let's think about the possible reasons for Russia's failure. It could be that Russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in Syria. It could be that Russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. Or it could be that the Assad regime is playing the Russians for fools."

Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, said the United States acted "illegally against the Syrian Arab Army" and "without genuine knowledge of what happened" in the chemical weapons attack, or "without identifying who was responsible."

Jaafari added that U.S. airstrikes harm counterterrorism efforts.

ABC News' Benjamin Gittleson, Luis Martinez, Alexander Marquardt, Alexander Mallin, Kirit Radia, Patrick Reevell, Joseph Simonetti, Daniel Trefcer and Marcus Wilford contributed to this report

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Mr. Kohl- The US fired dozens of missiles on a Syrian air base, destroying equipment there. At least six people were killed. This is the same air base from which a chemical weapons attack was launched on civilians earlier this week. More than 80 people were killed in that attack. President Trump said he ordered the airstrikes because it’s in the US’s national security interest to stop the use of chemical weapons.

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Mr. Kohl- The US fired dozens of missiles on a Syrian air base, destroying equipment there. At least six people were killed. This is the same air base from which a chemical weapons attack was launched on civilians earlier this week. More than 80 people were killed in that attack. President Trump said he ordered the airstrikes because it’s in the US’s national security interest to stop the use of chemical weapons.