By AFPToday, 11:32 am
In this December 4, 2006 file photo, Syria’s President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh in Damascus, Syria. (AP/Sana, File)
Syria’s foreign ministry condemns the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, blaming Israel and warning that the latest escalation could “set the entire region ablaze.”
“Syria condemns this blatant Zionist aggression,” the ministry says, describing Haniyeh’s killing as a “despicable act” and adding it “considers that the continued disregard of international laws by the Israeli entity… may set the entire region ablaze.”