Syria president denies wanting to intervene in Lebanon after Trump remarks
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has denied that his country sought to intervene militarily in Lebanon where Israel and Hezbollah are at war, after U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly suggested Damascus could get involved.
“We are looking for economic channels between Lebanon and Syria, not military ones,” Sharaa said in an interview broadcast on television channel Al Mashhad.
On June 21, Trump told Fox News he was “disappointed Israel can’t put Hezbollah away”, adding in reference to the fight against the militant group: “I’m close to giving it over to Syria.”
At the G7 summit in France this week, Trump also said “if Israel can’t do the job [against Hezbollah] without killing everyone else, then he [Sharaa] will do the job. Syria will do the job.”
