BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s foreign minister says Iranian ballistic missiles that targeted Islamic State forces in eastern Syria yesterday are part of “legitimate” cooperation between the two countries to combat terrorism.
Walid al-Moallem tells the Beirut-based Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen TV the strikes were coordinated with Syria’s government.
Iranian officials said the strikes were in retaliation for an attack on a military parade in Iran last month, after IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war in Syria, said the strikes killed eight people.
The Syrian government and its allies, as well as the US-led coalition, are separately battling IS, which still controls a sliver of land along Syria’s border with Iraq.
— AP
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