Syria could work with USA against Islamic State. Syria and USA are mutual friends?

[Freedomlover]

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said that his country is ready to work with the international community to battle against "terrorists" within the framework of a recent UN resolution.
In a news conference in Damascus on Monday, he also warned that Syria must be involved in co-ordinating any air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, after the US said it was considering extending operations into Syrian territory.
"Syria is ready for co-operation and co-ordination at the regional and international level to fight terrorism and implement UN Security Council resolution 2170," Muallem said.
He confirmed, in response to a question, that the country's willingness to do so would extend to co-operating with the US and the UK.
Muallem added that Syria was willing to participate in such efforts as part of a regional or international coalition, or on the basis of bilateral cooperation.
However, he noted: "We must feel that the co-operation is serious and not double standards.



"Any violation of Syria's sovereignty would be an act of aggression."


The self-declared jihadist Islamic State group has made advances in several parts of Syria, including most recently Raqqa province, where it seized the army's last provincial outpost on Sunday.


The UN Security Council passed a rare unanimous resolution on August 15 intended to weaken armed groups in Iraq and Syria by choking off their funding and stemming the flow of foreign fighters.


The resolution targeted both the Islamic State group and al-Nusra Front, which is al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate.


Syria's government considers not only these two groups, but all those fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad to be "terrorists".
Meanwhile on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged Western and Arab governments to overcome their distaste for Assad and engage with him to fight the Islamic State.


"I think Western politicians are already realising the growing and fast-spreading threat of terrorism," Lavrov said, referring to Islamic State advances in Syria and Iraq.


"And they will soon have to choose what is more important: a [Syrian] regime change to satisfy personal antipathies, risking deterioration of the situation beyond any control, or finding pragmatic ways to unite efforts against the common threat."


Russia has been Assad's most prominent international backer in the civil war that broke out in early 2011 and in which the US and the West, as well as many Gulf and Arab states, backed the rebels seeking to oust him

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middl...rate-against-terrorism-20148251196801654.html

 

[Freedomlover]

Now Assad government begging US to bomb IS in Syria for them. Their drama of enmity finished now

 

[Freedomlover]

Syria ready to work with any state to fight Islamist militants

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem gestures as he addresses a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva January 31, 2014.
Credit: Reuters/Denis Balibouse
(Reuters) - Syria said on Monday it would cooperate in any international efforts to fight Islamic State militants in the country, after Washington signaled it was considering extending the battle against the group into Syrian territory.
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem, whose government has been shunned by the West, presented his country as a vital partner in the war against Islamic State that has seized wide areas of Syria and Iraq.
"Syria, geographically and operationally, is the center of the international coalition to fight Islamic State," Moualem said in a televised news conference. "States must come to it if they are serious in combating terrorism," he added.
Asked about the prospect of U.S. air strikes against Islamic State inside Syria, Moualem said his government was ready to cooperate with any country fighting militants. But any air raids mounted without Damascus's approval would be viewed as hostile acts. "Anything outside this (cooperation) is considered aggression," he said.
The White House signaled on Friday it was considering taking the fight against Islamic State into Syria after days of airstrikes against the group in Iraq and the beheading of an American journalist.
But Washington has also supported a more than three-year-old insurgency against Assad and there has been no sign of any shift in U.S. policy towards the Syrian leader.
"He's part of the problem," Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, said in a broadcast interview last week. Last year Washington came close to bombing Syria after accusing Assad's forces of using chemical weapons.
Islamic State, an offshoot of al Qaeda, has emerged as the strongest group in the insurgency against Assad. It controls roughly a third of northern and eastern Syria and has since grabbed territory in neighboring Iraq, declaring a cross-border "caliphate".
(Reporting by Mariam Karouny; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014...GP0TS20140825?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

 

[Rooh-e-Safar]

IS has disclosed many hidden alliances... this one also... but its amazing people still playing the same harp of American conspiracy

 

[Rooh-e-Safar]

And this research is hilarious

 

[Mullah Omar]

World didn't do crap when thousands of Syrians were being butchered by Bashar Al Assad, now suddenly they're all getting united to fight IS who hasn't done fraction of what Bashar Al Assad did.

 

[AbuDujana]

infact US was in bed with bashar al khinzeer since the beginning.