German stands by its view that the US-led airstrikes against Syria were legal, despite experts saying they breached international law, German government stated. German parliamentary researchers last week granted an 11-page assessment to lawmakers that questioned whether the alleged chemical attack by Syrian government forces justified the attack by the United States, Britain, and France.
Germany didn’t take part in the April 14 strikes. A spokeswoman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday the German government “took note” of the parliamentary assessment but remains convinced the allied attack was a necessity and indeed one. Ulrike Demmer said the airstrikes were aimed to avoid further uses of chemical weapons by Syrian forces, which in themselves were a breach of international law. Merkel meets US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday.
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Syrian state media say government forces and their allies are forcing an offensive against members of the Islamic State group in southern Damascus. Hundreds of IS militants in the parts of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk and nearby Hajar al-Aswad in southern Damascus.
The extremists agreed to give up their last pocket there on Friday but have yet to begin surrendering to government forces and relocating to IS-held areas elsewhere in the country. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group reported that 11 people have been killed in the offensive since the fighting began last Thursday.
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