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This is AP News Minute.

The Pentagon is backing President Donald Trump's assertion that the missile strikes in Syria were "mission accomplished." At a briefing Saturday, Pentagon officials said the US-led airstrikes successfully hit every target and they were not aware of any civilian casualties.

Russia condemned the Syrian airstrikes at an emergency UN security meeting it requested. The US ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley, said that the US is "locked and loaded" if the Syrian regime uses poisonous gas again.

Vice President Mike Pence told U.S. Allies in Latin America the US-led airstrikes on Syria "degraded and crippled" the country's chemical weapons capability. Pence is fling in for President Trump at the Summit of