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US presence in Syria aimed at weakening Damascus: Activist

Monday, 25 September 2017 3:24 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 25 September 2017 3:26 PM ]

This file photo taken by the US Air Forces Central Command shows a pair of US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles flying over northern Iraq early in the morning of September 23, 2014 after conducting airstrikes on Syria. (Photo by AFP)

An activist says the United States has no right to carry out military operations in Syria, adding that Washington’s airstrikes are designed to weaken the government in Damascus.

“The US, both in fact and in law, has no right to be carrying on these military operations, which are clearly designed to weaken the Syrian government and encourage separatist elements, and we have to recall that it was not very long ago that the United States assured the global community that it was committed to maintaining the territorial integrity of Syria. Yet what we are seeing now is a very different reality,” Barry Grossman told Press TV in an interview on Monday.