Syria rejects US criticisms

Syria is “doing its best” to stop the war in Iraq by supporting the Iraqi people politically, not by providing military assistance to the Iraqi regime, as Washington has charged, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said today.

Claims by top US officials that Syria was supporting terrorism and sending military equipment to Iraq were part of a “chaotic response” in Washington to battlefield developments “that did not fit what has been described by the Americans before launching this attack,” Bouthayna Shaaban said.