Assad tells US to leave Syria

Assad said the public opinion around the world didn’t buy the Western narrative about the chemical weapons’ use by the government forces, noting that the West couldn’t back down on their allegations so they had to strike Syria, in reference to the USA -led missile strikes on Syrian sites on April 14.

“We’ll cope with it by two choices”, he mentioned.

The unconfirmed report said the negotiations were conducted last weekend between Iran’s ambassador to Jordan, who was in one hotel room in Amman with Iranian security personnel, while in the next room there were senior Israeli security officials, including the deputy head of the Mossad. “They are going to leave”, Assad added. The US also warned the Syrian regime against any moves south and warned Moscow that Russian Federation had signed a cease-fire. “If not, we will resort… to liberating these areas by pressure”.

The Kurds in oil-rich northeastern Syria have long pushed for increased autonomy in their heartland but Damascus has insisted it intends to reassert its authority over the entire country.

The United States, which supports the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, operates air bases and outposts in the Kurdish-administered region.

In his warning, Assad invoked the USA experience in Iraq, where US troops quickly faced a widespread insurgency that was fueled, US military and Iraqi officials say, by the Syrian government aiding the passage of hundreds of foreign fighters across the Syrian border. “The Individuals ought to depart”.

The Hadashot news report seems to contradict the understanding that Israel and Russian Federation apparently reached regarding the presence of foreign forces along the Syrian-Israeli border. President Bashar Assad also said he is focused on negotiations to remove the United States from eastern Syria.

He said it was down to “the wisdom of the Russian leadership” that a confrontation did not happen. Iran, in conjunction with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, now operates a network of militias recruiting from across the Mideast to fight on Assad’s behalf and maintains a command structure separate from the Syrian government.

Last year, with the help of Russian Federation and Iran, the Syrian army had initiated an offensive by the eastern Ghouta enclave, which they successfully seized in April.

Israel was reportedly unhappy that its concerns over Iranian forces being allowed into the area were not given sufficient attention during the negotiations.

“We couldn’t cover it, and we might not be ashamed to say that we’ve got”. The reasons for staying and further boosting USA forces in Syria are manifold.

“We have now Iranian officers, who work with the Syrian military as a assist however they do not have troops”. Lavrov was referring, here, specifically to southern Syria, but he also referred earlier to the USA military base at al-Tanf, about which he reported that Russian Federation has “accumulated a lot of evidence that odd things are going on” there, including the presence of extremist groups in and around the Rukban refugee camp.

A Syria-based official with the Iran-led axis of resistance denied the report saying it is “untrue”.