MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Washington announced on Monday additional deployment of 250 US military personnel in Syria to provide support to local forces fighting terrorist groups in the war-torn country.
"From the US side, it will be a new step into the danger of the Syrian crisis, and it may take this crisis into the direction where it will be hard to resolve it," Ahmad said.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov decried the step saying the US-led coalition's actions in Syria are illegal, and entering the country without consent from its legitimate authorities was a "big mistake." He added that the US decision reflects the desire to be able to use the coalition to attack not only terrorist positions, but perhaps also government’s forces later on in order to overthrow it, as it happened in Libya.
On Wednesday, a Kurdish security source told Sputnik that about 150 US troops have already arrived in the Kurdish-controlled town of Rumeilan in northeastern Syria.