Syria condemns ‘cowardly aggression’ by US as Biden says he wanted to send Iran message about ‘impunity’

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The Syrian government has denounced a US airstrike on its border with Iraq as an act of aggression contrary to international law, as President Joe Biden told reporters he ordered the strike as a warning to Iran.

“The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the US aggression against its sovereignty,” the Foreign Ministry in Damascus said on Friday, calling Thursday’s strikes in the Deir-ez-Zor province an act of “cowardly aggression” and a “flagrant violation of the rules of international law and [the] UN Charter.”

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