United States President Donald Trump told the US media on Tuesday that he once had an opportunity to “take out” his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad but then Defence Secretary James Mattis opposed the move. His comments were not greeted in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Syria’s foreign ministry has said the US administration is like a “terrorist group” and “rogue state” in response to Donald Trump’s remarks that he “had a shot” to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad but had not done so, according to the ministry’s statement distributed by state news agency SANA.
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