“Our position on Bashar al-Assad has not changed: he killed his own people, he was involved in indiscriminate violence, including through the use of chemical weapons against his own people.
He did nothing to regain the legitimacy he lost a long time ago, ”Price said.
According to him, the goal of the United States is "to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of the Syrian people."
Earlier, the Pentagon announced its intention to maintain a presence in Syria.
At the same time, the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of Russia and Syria published a joint statement in which they stated that the goal of the Western countries in Syria is to plunder the republic's national wealth, and their actions in the region have nothing to do with the war against terrorism.
As stated on February 26 at the Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, the American command continues to forcibly hold refugees in the Syrian camp of Al-Rukban, which confirms the US's interest in maintaining a "conveyor belt" for training extremists there.