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Vladimir Putin has warned the West that further air strikes against his allies in Syria will bring chaos to international relations.

The Russian president hit out at the US, UK and France following a joint bombing campaign targeting the Syrian regime's chemical weapons programme.

Putin said the military action had damaged the chances of achieving a political resolution in the war-torn country, according to Russian state media.

The strikes, in retaliation over a suspected poison gas attack by the regime, have further strained relations between Russia and the West, with the world now waiting to see how Moscow will respond.

The US has announced that it will impose further sanctions against Russia on Monday.

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Saturday's US-led campaign saw three Syrian chemical weapons facilities obliterated by more than 100 missiles fired by fighter jets and warships.

In a phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, another ally of Syria, on Sunday, Putin called the strikes illegal and warned that further action "will inevitably lead to chaos in international relations", the Kremlin said in a statement.

Donald Trump has warned that the US is "locked and loaded" to launch another strike in the future if Syria uses chemical weapons again.

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Nikki Haley, his ambassador to the United Nations, said US troops will remain on the ground in Syria until America's goals were accomplished.

She told Fox News those goals include stopping the threat of chemical weapons, defeating ISIS and keeping an eye on Iran.

Trump had previously said he wants to withdraw the roughly 2,000 US troops involved in a joint anti-ISIS campaign, but on Saturday warned Syria that the West was ready to "sustain" the military response.

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Haley said relations between Washington and Moscow were "very strained", but the US still hoped for a better relationship in the future.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow would make every effort to improve political relations with the West, the Tass news agency reported.

Haley told CBS News that the US would not hold any one-on-one talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is accused of launching a deadly chemical attack against his own people in rebel-held territory in the besieged city of Douma.

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A Trump administration official has said the US believes sarin and chlorine were used in the April 7 attack which allowed Syria to seize control of Douma.

Haley said Syria was not "worthy" of direct talks and Russia should "deliver" Syria to the negotiating table after the Assad government refused to take part in negotiations overseen by the UN.

She also revealed that the US would impose further sanctions against Russia on Monday due to its support for Syria. The sanctions will target firms dealing with equipment related to chemical weapons use in Syria, she added.

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The US, Russia and Iran are among the countries that have forces involved in military campaigns in Syria, which has been devastated by a seven-year civil war that has left about half a million people dead and millions displaced.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for a "war powers act" to guarantee MPs a vote on military action after the Uk's government launched its strike without consent from Parliament.

He questioned the legal basis for Britain joining the US and France in the bombing campaign, which Prime Minister Theresa May had called "right and legal" and in the UK's national interest.

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As the political fallout continued on Sunday, Trump defended his use of the phrase "mission accomplished" following the strikes which the US said "crippled" Assad's chemical weapons programme.

The phrase is associated with former president George W Bush, who used it prematurely during the Iraq war in 2003.

Trump tweeted: "The Syrian raid was so perfectly carried out, with such precision, that the only way the Fake News Media could demean was by my use of the term 'Mission Accomplished'."

He added: "I knew they would seize on this but felt it is such a great Military term, it should be brought back. Use often!"

Satellite images taken before and after the air strikes revealed the annihilation of the three Syrian sites.

The photos show how buildings were wiped out and reduced to smouldering piles of rubble.

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One image shows a cloud of smoke rising above the Barzeh research facility in suburban Damascus, while scorched or bare earth is visible at the two other locations near Homs.

A British aid worker has told how she heard “deafening explosions” when missiles flattened targets near her hotel in the capital Damascus.

Londoner Madiha Raza, 29, who works for British-based charity Muslim Aid, said: “I was asleep and I woke up because of deafening explosions, which seemed as if they were right outside."

Meanwhile, it emerged that Russian warships hunted a Royal Navy submarine in a 'cat and mouse' style chase days before Saturday's bombing raid.