Top EU diplomat warns West Asia could explode
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned against further escalation of violence in West Asia following US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
Borrell made the comments at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Saturday after the US air force struck dozens of targets in Iraq and Syria overnight. US President Joe Biden said on Friday that the strikes were the first in a series of actions in response to a drone attack that killed several soldiers at a US base in Jordan. Borrel warned that West Asia "is a cauldron that could explode." “And of course, there are attacks like on the border of Lebanon; there are attacks in Syria; there are attacks in Iraq, attacks in the Red Sea". "That is why we urge everyone to try to avoid an escalation," he said. Iraq and Syria condemned the deadly attacks against their sovereignty, with the Syrian Ministry of Defense stressing that Washington's attack is aimed at reviving the ISIS terrorist group in the two neighboring countries.
