Pro-Assad media: Washington in the same trench as the Syrian army

Jonathan Steele, reporting for MEE from Damascus, indicates that the celebratory tone of pro-Assad newspaper al-Watan is not shared by ordinary Damascenes.

Abu Nouri, a trader in a Damascus souq, told him that he is not confident about the success of the strikes.

"We thought of Americans as people of technology and civilisation, but they shake hands with Saudis who send terrorists against us.”

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