{"id":363664,"date":"2018-06-01T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T10:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-warns-syria-against-attacking-kurdish-militants\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T10:38:45","slug":"presstv-us-warns-syria-against-attacking-kurdish-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-warns-syria-against-attacking-kurdish-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US warns Syria against attacking Kurdish militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Pentagon has called on the Syrian government to reconsider its plans to\u00a0launch\u00a0attacks on Kurdish militants and allied US forces which\u00a0have been operating in areas in northeastern Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie, director of the joint staff, said on Thursday that Washington would deem it a bad policy for Syria if it attacked\u00a0the SDF militant group, which\u00a0enjoys massive\u00a0US support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny interested party in Syria should understand that attacking US Forces or our coalition partners will be a bad policy,\u201d said McKenzie during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came hours after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a televised interview that the United States must leave the county as the Syrian people will no longer accept illegal foreign presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned that the Syrian forces would not stand on ceremony to purge the country\u2019s northeastern regions from militants, no matter who supported\u00a0them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/01\/563518\/Syria-Assad-attack-Kurds-US-warning\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has called on the Syrian government to reconsider its plans to\u00a0launch\u00a0attacks on Kurdish militants and allied US forces which\u00a0have been operating in areas in northeastern Syria. Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie, director of the joint staff, said on Thursday that Washington would deem it a bad policy for Syria if it attacked\u00a0the SDF militant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363664","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=363664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}