Syria demanded immediate UN intervention in response to the Israeli regime's assassination of Iranian military adviser Seyed Razi Mousavi in Damascus, with the goal of addressing the Israeli atrocities in the region and the ensuing threat to international peace and security.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has roundly condemned the presence of hundreds of American troopers in the southeastern part of his country close to the border with Iraq, terming the deployment as “illegal” and an “act of aggression.”