Syria, Iran, Russia Slam Obama’s Strategy [View all]

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Source: Daily Star (Lebanon)

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DAMASCUS: Syria and its allies criticized the Obama administration Thursday for excluding them from an international coalition to confront ISIS while a state-run Syrian daily warned that unauthorized U.S. airstrikes on Syrian territory may trigger the “first sparks of fire” in the region.

“Any action of any type without the approval of Syrian government is an aggression against Syria,” Ali Haidar, minister of national reconciliation affairs, told reporters in Damascus. “There must be cooperation with Syria and coordination with Syria and there must be a Syrian approval of any action, whether it is military or not.”

Foreign countries could use ISIS simply as a pretext for attacking Syria, Haidar told reporters ahead of a meeting with new international peace mediator Staffan de Mistura.

State-run Al-Thawra newspaper warned in a front-page editorial that Obama’s authorization of airstrikes in Syria might be “the first sparks of fire in the region.”



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