Wird die US-Administration mit dem Despoten Assad kooperieren?

„Confusion reigned Monday over Syria’s new cease-fire as Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States and Russia could permit President Bashar Assad’s government to launch new airstrikes against al-Qaida-linked militants. The State Department quickly reversed itself. (…) Kerry’s comments at a news conference were the closest any American official had come to suggesting indirect U.S. cooperation with Assad since the civil war started in 2011. (…) ‚Assad is not supposed to be bombing the opposition, because there is a cease-fire,‘ Kerry told journalists at the State Department. ‚Now he is allowed … to target Nusra. But that will be on strikes that are agreed upon with Russia and the United States in order to go after them.‘ The U.S. had never previously spoken of approving military operations by Assad.“

(Bradley Klapper: „Confusion over cease-fire as US walks back Kerry comments“)