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Fri. 1:15 p.m.: The Latest: US calls for transparency in UN Syria summit

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

BEIRUT (AP) – Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the U.S. insisted that an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the U.S. missile attack on Syria be held in the open so that “any country that chooses to defend the atrocities of the Syrian regime will have to do in full public view, for all the world to hear.”

The Security Council has called an emergency meeting at 11:30 a.m. to discuss the developments in Syria.

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, however, is calling the U.S. missile attack on a Syrian air base “a new crime” by the American administration that will increase tensions in the Middle East.

Hezbollah warned in a statement today that this “foolish step by the Trump administration will be the beginning of a great and dangerous escalation in the region.”

Hezbollah, which sent thousands of its fighters to Syria to back President Bashar Assad’s forces, said the missile attack will complicate the situation worldwide.

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