DAMASCUS: Syria's foreign ministry on Sunday (Mar 5) condemned a surprise visit by the United States' top military officer to an army base in the Kurdish-held northeast, dubbing it 'illegal', state media said. In his snap visit Saturday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley met US troo
DAMASCUS: Syria's foreign ministry on Sunday condemned a surprise visit by the United States' top military officer to an army base in the Kurdish-held northeast, dubbing it"illegal", state media said.
Official news agency SANA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying"Syria strongly condemns the illegal visit of the American chairman of the chiefs of staff to an illegal American military base in northeast Syria". Kurdish officials deny any separatist aspirations and say they seek to preserve their self-rule, which Damascus does not recognise.
During the visit, Milley"received updates on the counter-ISIS mission", Butler added using an alternative acronym for the IS militants.
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