|
|
#1
04-09-2017, 07:40 AM
|
|||
|
|||
AL calls for ?de-escalation? in Syria
CAIRO: Arab League chief Ahmed Abu Gheit warned on Saturday against a "dangerous escalation" in Syria after a US missile strike on a Syrian airbase following an alleged regime chemical attack. "The Arab League rejects regional and international powers’ attempts to politick over the corpses of Syrians or at the cost of its sovereignty," he told reporters. "Therefore we demand that all should retreat from this dangerous escalation we are monitoring," said the secretary general of the 22-member Arab bloc based in Cairo. Early on Friday morning, the US military fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at Shayrat air field in response to a suspected chemical attack this week widely blamed on the Damascus regime. A Syrian military source told AFP that Syria’s armed forces were warned about possible US military action hours before the strike took place. Abul Gheit condemned the chemical attack, for which the regime has denied responsibility, saying "the perpetrators must be held accountable one day". Meanwhile, the army chiefs of Russia and Iran discussed the US strikes in Syria by phone on Saturday, and vowed to continue the fight against "terrorists" and their supporters, Iranian media reported. The two chiefs of staff, Major General Mohammed Bagheri and General Valery Gerasimov, "condemned the American operation against a Syrian air base which is an aggression against an independent country", state news agency IRNA said. The American strikes "aim at slowing the victories of the Syrian army and its allies, and reinforcing terrorist groups", they said in a statement. The two army leaders vowed to continue their military cooperation in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "until the total defeat of the terrorists and those that support them", according to the Mehr news agency. Iran and Russia are Assad’s closest allies and label all opponents of his regime as "terrorists". Both governments have defended Assad against Western allegations that his regime carried out a suspected chemical ******* attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun on Tuesday, killing dozens of civilians. President Hassan Rouhani earlier criticised his US counterpart Donald Trump for the missiles fired early on Friday in response to the suspected chemical attack. "This man who is **w in ****** in America claimed that he wanted to fight terrorism but today all terrorists in Syria are celebrating the US attack," he said. أكثر... 
|
 |
|
|
العرض العادي
