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Bashar Assad: US troops in Syria are ‘invaders’

By Robert King
Published March 11, 2017 1:57pm ET
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Bashar Assad: US troops in Syria are ‘invaders’
"What are they going to do? To fight ISIS? The Americans lost nearly every war. They lost in Iraq, they had to withdraw at the end," said Syrian President Bashar Assad. (SANA via AP) | Uncredited

Syrian President Bashar Assad said that any U.S. troops coming to Syria to fight the Islamic State are ‘invaders’ because they don’t have permission to enter the country, according to reports.

The Syrian president said that there has been no “concrete action” from the Trump administration on ISIS.

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