Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

'I don't rule anything out': Mattis on taking action in Syria


(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Washington: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday pointed toward Russia's role in a suspected poison gas attack in Syria, and said he would not rule out a military response.

"The first thing we have to look at is why are chemical weapons still being used at all when Russia was the framework guarantor of removing all the chemical weapons," Mattis said at the Pentagon in a meeting with his Qatari counterpart.

"Working with our allies and our partners from NATO to Qatar and elsewhere, we are going to address this issue .... I don't rule out anything right now."

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