Joint operations between Syrian and Russian forces are achieving “big results,” Syria’s parliament chief tells a visiting Russian parliamentary delegation, state news agency SANA reports.
“The coordination between Syrian and Russian forces during the implementation of air and ground operations has begun to achieve big results in defeating and eradicating terrorism in Syria and Iraq,” Jihad al-Lahham says.
He also defends joint Russian-Syrian operations as “the only legitimate coalition against international terrorism” in a dig at a US-led coalition against the Islamic State group that does not coordinate with Damascus.
Russia began an aerial campaign in Syria on September 30, in response to a request from Damascus.
Moscow says it is targeting IS and other “terrorists,” but Syrian rebels and their backers say Russian strikes have focused on moderate and Islamist fighters, not jihadists.
— AFP
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