Russia Warns US-Led Coalition: Those Who Carry Out Strikes In Syria Face Blowback

[Purveyor]

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that those countries initiating one-sided military scenarios take international legal responsibility for their consequences. It comes as the US-led coalition begins its anti-ISIS strikes in Syria.

"Attempts to achieve one's own geopolitical goals in violation of the sovereignty of countries in the region only exacerbate tensions and further destabilize the situation," the statement said.

The launch of the US-led operation against the jihadist movement Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS or ISIL) has seen strikes targeting training camps, headquarters and weapons supplies in northern and eastern Syria. However, eight civilians have been killed in the strikes since the start of the attack, three of them children. At least 30 militants have also been declared dead.

Syria, in its turn, said in a statement that it’s prepared to cooperate with any international anti-terrorism effort. The country won’t stop the fight with IS extremists, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said.

The statement from Damascus also said “the concurrence of actions between Syria and Iraq remains at the highest level.”

However, Russia stated that "any such [military] action can be carried out only in accordance with international law. That implies not a formal, one-sided 'notification' of airstrikes but the presence of explicit consent from the government of Syria or the approval of a corresponding UN Security Council decision."

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[Igel]

1. By Russia's standards, no Syrian city's been attacked.

It's occupied territory under a group that claims independence.

The optimal thing for Russia to do, were it consistent, would be to demand that a contact group be formed to discuss the IS's "legitimate interests" and how to establish an autonomous region within Syria.

Instead it complains about bombing insurgents while it shells Schastya. Sad, too, because they worsed the humanitarian crisis by knocking out power to 1.4 million people a couple of days ago; damaged a couple of transformers there, today. Then again, these are Russians, so they have rights the rest of us must forever be denied. We only have obligations. Those nasty transformers were probably Nazi transformers, bent to corrupting the entire power grid with their deviant, fascist frequencies and potentials.

[geek tragedy]

2. Rt.com or the onion? nt

[leftstreet]

3. Uh-oh. I think Obama has been unFriended n/t