Czech president criticises US involvement in Syria

Czech president Miloš Zeman has warned that if the US involvement in Syria ends in fiasco it will only have itself to blame. In an interview published Friday, Zeman said that Washington had not been invited to involve itself in the country by any Syrian legal authority. He added that there is no peaceful opposition in Syria, only Islamic groups. In contrast, Russian intervention followed an invitation from the Syrian government, he added. Islamic groups were also responsible for most of the war crimes in Syria, Zeman said. The latest comments are likely to be grouped with a long list of broadly pro-Russian and critical US comments from the Czech head of state in recent years.

Author: Chris Johnstone