1st LD: Syria condemns U.S. bid to form armed militia in northern region

DAMASCUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Monday slammed the U.S. bid to form an armed militia in northern Syria as a flagrant violation to Syria's sovereignty, according to state news agency SANA.

The U.S. declaration of forming an armed militia in northeastern Syria constitutes a flagrant aggression on the unity and sovereignty of Syria and a violation of the international law, the ministry said.

A day earlier, reports cited the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition as saying that the United States is working to form an armed group of 30,000 fighters, which will be under the command of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrians supported by the U.S. in northern Syria. Enditem