SAEDNEWS: “US occupation forces launched on Saturday a blatant aerial aggression on a number of sites and towns in the eastern region of Syria, near Iraqi borders, leaving many civilian and military martyrs, injuring others and causing huge damage to private and public properties,” said the statement issued by the Defense Ministry on Saturday, according to Syria’s official SANA news agency.
The region targeted by the US attack is the same area where the Syrian army fights remnants of Daesh, and this affirms that Washington is “involved and allied” with the terrorist group, trying to revive it in Iraq and Syria, the statement added.
The Syrian Defense Ministry stressed that the US aggression has no justification, and is an attempt to “weaken the Syrian army’s capability to fight terrorism.”
However, it added, the Syrian army has already defeated many terrorist organizations and will continue to deal heavy blows to them despite all the attempts by the leaders and supporters of those organizations.
The US occupation of parts of Syria cannot continue, the Ministry further said, emphasizing that the government in Damascus is “determined to fight terrorism and liberate all Syrian territories from terrorism and occupation.”
Earlier on Saturday, US Central Command (CENTCOM), which operates military activities in the West Asia region, announced on its X account that it had struck more than 85 targets in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
The US said that the strikes were the first phase of its response to a fatal drone attack on an American outpost in the Jordanian side of the border with Syria last Sunday. Washington blamed resistance groups operating in Syria and Iraq that are allied to Iran for the attack.
Tehran has vehemently rejected US claims that it had directed the groups and said that they do not take orders from the Islamic Republic in their actions related to the security of the region as well as those in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza (SOURCE: IRNA).
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