{"id":298644,"date":"2017-03-12T01:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T00:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/assad-is-correct-in-calling-us-troops-in-syria-invaders-analyst\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T01:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T00:35:05","slug":"assad-is-correct-in-calling-us-troops-in-syria-invaders-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/assad-is-correct-in-calling-us-troops-in-syria-invaders-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Assad is correct in calling US troops in Syria invaders: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has correctly called the US troops in Syria invaders because under international law foreign governments can\u2019t deploy troops to sovereign countries, senior analyst Ken Stone says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assad told Chinese TV station Phoenix on Saturday that that &#8220;any foreign troops coming to Syria without our invitation &#8230; are invaders,&#8221; but indicated that there was still room for potential cooperation between Damascus and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The counter-terrorism fight \u201ccannot be from the air, it should be in cooperation with the troops on the ground, that\u2019s why the Russians succeeded,\u201d Assad said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.presstv.com\/photo\/20170311\/0bf89c7e-fdba-4cd1-9e80-82c75a24e4ed.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Syrian President Bashar Assad (L) talking to a corespondent from Chinese TV station Phoenix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stone, a member of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, told press TV on Saturday that \u201cPresident Assad is absolutely correct in calling the US troops in Syria invaders because under international law foreign governments can\u2019t station troops or&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/03\/12\/513978\/Assad-correct-in-calling-US-troops-in-Syria-invaders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has correctly called the US troops in Syria invaders because under international law foreign governments can\u2019t deploy troops to sovereign countries, senior analyst Ken Stone says. Assad told Chinese TV station Phoenix on Saturday that that &#8220;any foreign troops coming to Syria without our invitation &#8230; are invaders,&#8221; but indicated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-298644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}