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The coalition includes Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan. The U.S. administration has also approved a program to equip and train Syrian rebel factions it describes as moderate.

Al-Moallem said the countries which joined the U.S. coalition include some who have been key supporters of “armed terrorist groups.” He did not name them, but Syria regularly accuses Saudi Arabia and Qatar of supporting the opposition fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

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The foreign minister also tried to position his country on the same side of the coalition fighting ISIS, which he said has been “unleashed like a monster” against Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

“Let us together stop this ideology and its exporters. Let us simultaneously exert pressure on the countries that joined the coalition led by the United States to stop their support of armed terrorist groups,” he said. “Only then, combating terrorism militarily becomes viable.”

Al-Moallem said the U.S. administration maintains a double standard in its support of groups it calls moderate with money, weapons and training.

“This is a real recipe for the increase of violence and terrorism, shedding of Syrian blood, prolonging of the Syrian crisis,” he said. “This behaviour creates a fertile ground for the growth of these terrorist groups that commit the most heinous crimes on Syrian territory.”