U.S. President Donald Trump spoke in separate phone calls on Monday, April 10 with British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the U.S. air strike in Syria last week, the White House said in a statement, according to Reuters.

May and Merkel expressed support for the U.S. action and agreed with Trump "on the importance of holding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accountable" for an alleged sarin gas attack that killed scores of civilians, the statement said.

The United States launched a military strike on April 6 on a Syrian government target in response to their chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians earlier in the week.

On Trump's orders, U.S. warships launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian government airbase where the warplanes that carried out the chemical attacks were based, U.S. officials said.