In the US, said the lack of plans to stay in Syria after the victory over the IG
The US does not plan to stay in Syria after the banned terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG) will be defeated. This was during the briefing said state Department spokesman Heather Nauert, the text of the press conference published on the Agency’s website.
The mission of the coalition led by the United States, in Syria it is called “defeating ISIS”.
Whether in Iraq or in Syria, our goal is to defeat the “Islamic state” and not to do there [in those countries] nothing more.Heather Northfield state Department spokesman
She also added that Washington wants to “Syria ruled by Syrians, not the United States” or any “other forces”.
“Our plan is (to stay in Syria after the defeat of ISIS. — RBC) is not,” said Nauert, stressing once again that the United States “sosredotochitsya” on the victory over the “Islamic state”.
Previously, on 19 August, Reuters, citing unnamed sources in the Ministry of defence of Lebanon said that the attack on is militants near the Northern border with Syria made the Lebanese army. The terrorists, as said the interlocutor of the Agency, was attacked near the town of RAS Baalbek in the North of the country. In the attack, according to them, participation of, in particular, took artillery and helicopters. In addition, a joint operation with the Syrian government forces, as noted by Reuters, August 19, started the fighters of the Lebanese movement “Hezbollah”.