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US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said Tuesday that Washington is “deeply concerned” over confirmed Israeli airstrikes on Abu al-Duhur Military Airbase in northern Syria, describing the attack as an “unnecessary escalation,” Anadolu reports. “We are deeply concerned that the confirmed Israeli airstrikes on Abu al-Duhur Airbase constitute an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability,” Barrack said on US social media platform X. “The (Ahmad) Al-Sharra government has neither adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces. It has, in fact, repeatedly indicated a preference for de-escalation with Israel,” he said. READ: Syrian court sentences Assad’s cousin to death for crimes against humanity “The United States has in the past, and will continue in the future, to host discussions to […]
