Syria received intel on U.S.-led air strikes on IS: Assad IS 공습 정보 전달받고 있는 아사드

And turning to the Middle East. Syria says that it has been receiving U.S. military intelligence on air strikes targeting Islamic State militants inside its borders. Paul, although there′s been no confirmation from the Pentagon, Syria′s president has come out to speak on the matter. Bashar al-Assad has publicly revealed that his government received messages from the American military... about those aerial bombings on IS targets inside Syria. But he stressed that there no direct cooperation in carrying out the operations. This latest revelation came during a interview with the BBC published on Tuesday,... in which Assad denied his forces had been dropping barrel bombs on rebel-held areas, killing thousands of civilians. He also ruled out joining the international coalition that is seeking to destroy IS. That U.S. coalition has been battering IS targets in Iraq and Syria since last September. Following its recent surge in bombing runs against the jihadists,... Jordan said the U.S-led operations have killed about 7-thousand militants.