Airstrikes of So-Called Anti-Terror US-Led Coalition against Infrastructure in Syria a Vicious Aggression

DAMASCUS, (ST)-“The airstrikes of the so-called anti-terror US-led coalition against infrastructure in different Syrian areas was a vicious aggression,” the Syrian Ministry of Foreign affairs and Expatriates has underscored.

Addressing the UN Chief and President of the Security Council in two identical letters, the ministry renewed Syria’s rejection of the illegal US airstrikes in the country without coordination with or permission of the Syrian government.

Under the pretext of fighting ISIL terrorist organization and within the framework of its continuous attempts to violate of the Syrian sovereignty, the airstrikes of the US-led coalition targeted two thermal power plants in Aleppo causing huge destruction and an estimated loss of 1.2 billion Euros. The attacks led the two plants to be out of service and caused power cut in the area, according to the ministry.

“It is a vicious aggression against the Syrian economic, industrial and service infrastructure aiming to destroy the Syrian people’s development and rebuilding potentials, the ministry said.

Instead of combating the terrorist organizations’ acts of stealing the Syrian oil and gas, the US-airstrikes targeted the oil and gas fields and facilities in Hassaka and Deir EzZour provinces, causing huge damage to pipelines and oil wells not to mention the great environmental pollution which may lead to greater environmental disasters because of the fires broken out in the fields, according to the ministry’s letters.

 “The coalition’s airstrikes, instead, should have targeted the terrorist gangs’ convoys of stolen Syrian gas and oil to prevent them from reaching the Syrian –Turkish borders where they got access to the Turkish territories and were sold cheaply,” the ministry stressed.

It clarified that the aggressive attacks aimed at destroying the infrastructure of the Syrian economic sectors, particularly the gas and oil in order to hinder the process of early recovery and reconstruction in Syria.

The ministry renewed its rejection of the US-led coalition’s illegal airstrikes in Syria without coordination with the Syrian government and called for halting the US-Western attacks against Syrian infrastructure, stressing that these acts haven’t achieved any gains in the war against ISIL.

Hamda Mustafa