By Xinhua,
Abu Dhabi : The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday condemned the U.S. air raid on Sunday inside the Syrian territories that killed eight people, the official Emirates News Agency reported.
“The United Arab Emirates stresses that it is highly concerned over the consequences of this action on the regional peace since it is a violation of international legitimacy as well as the national sovereignty of the sisterly Syrian Arab Republic”, the UAE Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry also called on the United States to settle any differences with Syria through diplomatic means.
Eight people were killed Sunday during a U.S. helicopters raid on a building inside Syria on its borders with Iraq, the first of its kind since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
A U.S. military official has justified that the U.S. raid targeted a network of al-Qaida-linked foreign fighters against Iraq.