Secretary of State Kerry Admits War on ‘Legitimate’ Syrian Government is Illegal

‘Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, the top US diplomat admitted that the administration’s lawyers had determined that any and all American intervention in Syria is illegal.
Experts have long criticized the legality of the US intervention in Syria under the tenets of international law given that the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad has patently refused to welcome American intervention and has, in fact, repeatedly called on the United States to stop meddling in the ongoing civil war to which Washington is not a party to.
The State Department has long countered that their position is that the alleged attacks by the Assad regime on civilians, particularly in rebel-held East Aleppo, invalidates the Syrian leader’s legitimacy under international law under a doctrine known as “right to protect.”‘
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