Foreign Ministry:

US Military Presence in Syria Act of Aggression on Country's Sovereignty

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the US military presence in Syria has been illegitimate and represented a blatant breach of the international law and an aggression on the country's national sovereignty.

News ID: 68145

Date: 18 January 2018 - 16:57

“The internal affairs in any country around the world is an exclusive right of the people of that country, thus nobody has the right to interfere in other country's internal affairs because this violates the international law and contradicts the most important theories of the constitutional law,” a source at the ministry said commenting on statements by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, SANA reported.

The source added that the US presence in Syria is aimed at protecting the ISIL terrorists.

The source said that the US administration’s goal was never to eliminate ISIL, adding that Raqqa city is evidence for the so-called achievements of the US and its alleged alliance.

” Raqqa is completely destroyed and Daesh mines are daily exploding as Raqqa residents are in the camps without providing any humanitarian, food or medical aid. They are deprived of returning to their homes due to this destruction,” the source added.

“The Syrian Arab Republic will continue its relentless war against the terrorist groups with their different names till clearing up every inch of Syrian soil from the atrocity of terrorism and will continue battle till liberating Syria from any illegitimate foreign presence,” the source concluded.