WORLD_ SYRIA_ Assad `Cannot Last' in Syria as Russia Escalates, Carter Says

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Assad `Cannot Last' in Syria as Russia Escalates, Carter Says

Charles Penty October 5, 2015 — 9:30 PM AEDT

* Russia pouring gasoline on fire, U.S. defense secretary says
* Vows U.S. will counter `malign' Russian influene in Ukraine

Syrian President President Bashar al-Assad’s “regime cannot last” even as Russia’s airstrikes inflame the country’s war, and the U.S. will counter Russian influence in Ukraine, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said.

“By taking military action in Syria against moderate group targets, Russia has escalated the civil war,” Carter said in a speech in Madrid, Spain, on Monday. “This approach is tantamount to pouring gasoline on fire.”

U.S.-Russian tension has increased with Russia’s attacks in areas of Syria where the U.S. says Islamic State doesn’t operate, spurring speculation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to prop up his ally Assad. Putin and President Barack Obama failed to agree on a common approach to Syria at the United Nations last week.

On Ukraine, “we will take all necessary steps to deter Russia’s malign destabilizing influence, coercion and aggression,” said Carter, who’s in Europe to attend a meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization ministers in Brussels. “At the same time, we will continue to be open to cooperating with Russia where our interests align.”

The defense secretary also pledged “a full and transparent investigation” of the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed at least 22 people. The Pentagon said Saturday it carried out an airstrike near the hospital and that “there may have been collateral damage.”

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