Sputnik: German Bundestag Committee: Russia's Syria Campaign is Legal, US Should Leave
The US-led coalition’s military intervention in Syria is under increasing levels of scrutiny, with critics arguing that the coalition has no mandate to conduct military operations in the Arab Republic as it doesn’t have Damascus’ approval to do so.
A committee of the German Bundestag headed by Die Linke politician Alexander Neu found Russia’s military presence in Syria to be “considered permissible in international law” as the Syrian government requested assistance from Moscow, the ARD public broadcaster’s Tagesschau news service reported on Tuesday.
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WNU editor: I read the German report on this story as best as I could .... and it says the same as the above Sputnik report. But what I found even more interesting about this news story is that no one else outside of Germany is covering it. On the day that President Trump is calling out German - Russian cooperation energy deals, this report on a committee in the German Bundestag supprting the Russian presence in Syria but criticising the U.S. presence is being ignored by the mainstream media.
