{"id":379212,"date":"2018-10-01T02:21:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-presence-on-syrian-soil-illegal\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T02:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:21:13","slug":"us-military-presence-on-syrian-soil-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-presence-on-syrian-soil-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"US military presence on Syrian soil illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has roundly condemned the presence of hundreds of American troopers in the southeastern part of his country close to the border with Iraq, terming the deployment as \u201cillegal\u201d and an \u201cact of aggression.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an exclusive interview with Russia\u2019s Arabic-language RT Arabic television news network, Muallem stated that Americans at al-Tanf garrison recruit and train Daesh terrorists, and then dispatch them to the front line to fight Syrian government forces in a bid to prolong the Syrian crisis in favor of Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Damascus-Tehran relations not negotiable\u00a0at all\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top Syrian diplomat went on to say that relations between his country and the Islamic Republic of Iran were not\u00a0open to any negotiations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe presence of Iranian advisers in Syria is legitimate and at the\u00a0request of the Damascus government contrary to the American deployment, which is an act of aggression&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/30\/575671\/Presence-of-US-military-forces-on-Syrian-soil-illegal-act-of-aggression-Muallem\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has roundly condemned the presence of hundreds of American troopers in the southeastern part of his country close to the border with Iraq, terming the deployment as \u201cillegal\u201d and an \u201cact of aggression.\u201d Speaking in an exclusive interview with Russia\u2019s Arabic-language RT Arabic television news network, Muallem stated that Americans [&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-379212","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\/379212","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=379212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}