Assad: US military forces in Syria are 'invaders'

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad scoffed and questioned US actions in Syria, calling American troops deploying to the country "invaders" because he hadn't given permission for them to enter the country and saying there's been no "concrete action" from the Trump administration toward ISIS.

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The Syrian leader made the comments in an interview with Chinese media outlet Phoenix TV. It was published on Syria's state-news agency SANA on Saturday.

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In theory, Assad said, there could be cooperation between Syria and a Trump-led United States, but that there was no formal ties or outreach so far.

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"It cannot be from the air, it should be in cooperation with the troops on the ground, that's why the Russians succeeded, since they supported the Syrian Army in pushing ISIS to shrink, not to expand as it used to be before that. So, we have hopes that this taking into consideration that talking about ISIS doesn't mean talking about the whole terrorism; ISIS is one of the products, al-Nusra is another product, you have so many groups in Syria, they are not ISIS, but they are al Qaeda, they have the same background of the Wahabi extremist ideology," he said.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/middleeast/syria-conflict-isis-us-military/index.html

[malthaussen]

1. Sounds good. Let's pull them out, then. n/t

[Blue Idaho]

3. Iraq 2.0 nt.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. Trust Trump to even screw up his own "plan"

His whole premise of , why not get along better with Russia (and Assad) to take out ISIS together. Assad seems exasperated because all Trump has to do is formally ask, and then sure, come on it and help Russia to annihilate the last remnants of the democratic moderate opposition....er I mean ISIS.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Donny boy wants to get his war on