Some allies have long worried the air strikes might unintentionally bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by striking a common enemy, sources said. officials are keen to prevent the coalition from fraying over concerns about the air campaign’s direction. The percentage quickly dropped to around 8 percent in October and 9 percent in November, according to Reuters calculations based on the data. allies carried out 38 percent of the strikes. That accentuates a shift that began shortly after the start of the campaign in late September, when U.S. allies have carried out just two air strikes in Syria in the first half of December, compared with 62 by the United States. REUTERS/Umit BektasĪlthough President Barack Obama’s administration announced the Syrian air strikes three months ago as a joint campaign by Washington and its Arab allies, nearly 97 percent of the strikes in December have been carried out by the United States alone, according to U.S. Smoke rises after an U.S.-led air strike in the Syrian town of Kobani Ocotber 10, 2014.
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