7/10 Marian Kotleba - who heads the extreme-right People's Party-Our Slovakia - said on Monday that Bashar al-Assad's government faces an international conspiracy due to its supposed opposition to "the global criminal Zionist regime" - likely referring to Israel - acc to Syrian state media/
Muallem made the remarks during a meeting in Baghdad this week with Iraq's PM to discuss securing their common border, large parts of which are controlled by IS./The source〜said that Iraqi side discussed coordination on a future offensive to recapture IS-held towns along the Syrian-Iraqi border.