Upon arrival at the informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU member states, Borrell noted that there is a possibility that the situation in the Middle East will get out of control.
“We always repeat that the Middle East is a cauldron that can explode at any moment. We call on everyone to de-escalate, we are experiencing a critical situation,” TASS quotes him as saying.
On the night of February 3, US Central Command forces carried out airstrikes on 85 targets in Syria and Iraq. As the Syrian Ministry of Defense subsequently reported, both civilians and military personnel were killed as a result of the attack.