DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – The presence of the U.S. forces in northeastern Syria and its plundering of the Syrian oil aim to obstruct the political solution and the return of stability and security to Syria, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The U.S. practices and the unlimited support to the terrorist groups show the “hypocrisy of the U.S. in the region,” which is “no longer acceptable neither morally nor politically,” the ministry said.
It slammed the U.S. sanctions imposed on Syria, saying that the U.S. unilateral sanctions and measures are “threatening the lives of the Syrian people and are detrimental to the present and future” of Syria.
The U.S. forces entered Syria in 2014 under the pretext of fighting the Daesh. The Syrian government has repeatedly called for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Syria, describing the U.S. troops as forces of occupation.
Meanwhile, Syria said the Zionist regime’s attacks on the country cannot be treated in isolation from U.S. acts of aggression, calling on the UN Security Council to condemn the attacks on its territories.
It followed the occupying regime’s recent strike that killed three Syrian soldiers and injured seven others near the capital Damascus.
The call came in two identical letters by the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Friday addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the rotating President of the UN Security Council Ronaldo Costa Filho.
The ministry urged the UN to exert pressure on the occupying regime to abide by the 1947 Agreement on Disengagement, which stipulates in its first paragraph a ceasefire on land, sea, and air between Syria and the Zionist-occupied territories.
The statement said Syria reserves the right to respond to the Zionist strikes by appropriate means in accordance with international law and the UN Charter.
It stressed that the Security Council’s failure to adopt necessary measures to prevent and condemn repeated Zionist missile strikes in Syria shows the UN body’s incapability to honor its obligations concerning the establishment of peace and security in the Middle East region and across the world.
The statement further highlighted that such attacks cannot be treated in isolation from U.S. acts of aggression, violations of international principles, occupation of northeastern Syria, plunder of Syrian energy reserves, and delivery of various weapons to militants in the country.
The Syrian foreign ministry noted that these attacks are conducted in a show of direct support for terror groups that spread insecurity and chaos across Syria.
The Zionist regime’s fighter jets launched a series of airstrikes on areas near Damascus shortly after midnight on Friday, killing three soldiers and wounding seven others, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.
SANA, citing a military source, said most of the missiles launched from over the occupied Golan Heights were intercepted.
The occupying regime frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.