Russia accused of "pouring gasoline on fire” in Syria

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has described Russian airstrikes and the Kremlin's approach to the civil war in Syria as "pouring gasoline on the fire.”

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Thursday, 01.10.2015.

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Russia accused of "pouring gasoline on fire” in Syria

“Russia states an intent to fight ISIL on the one hand, and to support the Bashar al-Assad regime on the other. Fighting Isil without pursuing a parallel political transition only risks escalating the civil war in Syria - and with it, the very extremism and instability that Moscow claims to be concerned about and aspire to fighting. So that approach is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the fire," Carter said at an impromptu press conference, according to the paper.

"Carter stopped short of demanding an end to the airstrikes, suggesting it was not too late for Russia to change its position," the article said, and quoted the Russian president as stating on Wednesday that his country "would not plunge head-first into the conflict but would provide temporary air support for a Syrian army offensive."

U.S. officials have attacked Russia's intervention in Syria - which the Guardian described as "the Russian gambit" and " the first time the country has launched major military action outside the borders of the former Soviet Union since the end of the Cold War" - from another angle: claiming that Russian warplanes "also hit civilian targets, and rebels that have nothing to do with Islamic State."

Washington has indirectly accused Moscow of attacking the positions of the Free Syrian Army, the main opposition to the Syrian regime.

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