BEIRUT: The Russian and Iranian army chiefs vowed Saturday (Sunday in Manila) to keep battling “terrorists” in Syria, a day after a US missile onslaught on a Syrian airbase following a suspected chemical weapons attack.

General Valery Gerasimov and Major General Mohammad Bagheri spoke by phone and “condemned the American operation against a Syrian airbase which is an aggression against an independent country,” Iran’s state news agency IRNA said.

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