The way the US-led coalition is conducting its Mosul siege suggests Washington might be planning to “navigate” Islamic State terrorists into Syria in accordance with its longstanding strategy for the region, President Assad’s media adviser told RT.
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists potentially fleeing from Mosul into Syria would become a “huge danger to our sovereignty, to our country,”Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban said.
“Russia and Syria are looking at this issue extremely seriously. We’re not going to sit and watch… The way they encircle Mosul shows they would like these terrorists to move into to Syria…,” Shaaban told RT.
“They’re navigating terrorism from one place to another, limiting terrorism in one place, directing it to another place. That’s the absolute truth of what is happening in our region,” she explained. – READ MORE
