Syria condemns cowardly US aggression on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization forces, voices solidarity with the Iraqi people

National

DAMASCUS, (ST)-  Syria has condemned the American aggression on the Iraqi Hashd al-Sha’abi forces (Popular Mobilization forces), expressing its full solidarity with the Iraqi people and institutions and renewing its call on the United States not to interfere in Iraq’s internal affairs.

An official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement to SANA on Monday that the American warplanes launched a bloody attack on the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces which have been defending the sovereignty and independence of Iraq pursuant to the decisions of the Iraqi state and official institutions.

 This brutal and cowardly attack resulted in the martyrdom and wounding of a large number of Iraqi citizens, the source added.

“The Syrian Arab Republic condemns this American aggression and any other aggression against the sovereignty, independence and freedom of Iraq and the Iraqi people,” the source said.

The source concluded by saying that Syria voices full solidarity with and support for the Iraqi people to surpass the difficult circumstances in the country and it extends condolences to the families of the martyrs, wishing the wounded seedy recovery.

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry described the US strikes against several bases of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization forces- commonly known by its Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi- as “unacceptable and counterproductive,” urging all sides to avoid fuelling tensions in the region.

“We consider such actions unacceptable and counterproductive. We call upon all parties to refrain from further actions that could sharply destabilize the military-political situation in Iraq, Syria, and the neighboring countries,” a ministry statement said.

Hamda Mustafa

You might also like
National

The arrival of students coming from terrorist -controlled areas to Aleppo city to do…

National

Syria’s permanent delegation to UN: Results of American investigations into…

National

Lecture on Chilean Philosophy at Damascus University

National

Nebenzia: The US occupation forces plunder Syria’s resources and prevent…

.. _copyright: Copyright ========= .. code-block:: none Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Marc Delisle Olivier Müller Robin Johnson Alexander M. Turek Michal Čihař Garvin Hicking Michael Keck Sebastian Mendel [check credits for more details] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Third party licenses ++++++++++++++++++++ phpMyAdmin includes several third-party libraries which come under their respective licenses. jQuery's license, which is where we got the files under js/vendor/jquery/ is (MIT|GPL), a copy of each license is available in this repository (GPL is available as LICENSE, MIT as js/vendor/jquery/MIT-LICENSE.txt). The download kit additionally includes several composer libraries. See their licensing information in the vendor/ directory.