Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Monday contacted his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad to denounce "Sunday's American aggression" against the Syrian village of Abu Kamal near the border with Iraq, local Elnashra website reported.
During the contact, President Suleiman presented his condolences to the families of the victims of the U.S. raid and expressed his solidarity with Syria in imposing its sovereignty on all its territories, said the report.
At least eight people were reportedly killed Sunday during a U.S. helicopter raid on a building inside Syrian territories on borders with Iraq, the first of its kind at such scale since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003
Suleiman, meanwhile, called for handling and dismantling tension after the event according to the international law, according to the report.
Earlier on Monday, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora's office also denounced that the U.S. raid on Syria is a "violation of the Syrian sovereignty and unacceptable aggression regardless of the excuses."
A U.S. military official has justified that the U.S. raid on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq on Sunday targeted a network of al-Qaida-linked foreign fighter steaming to Iraq.
On Sunday, Syria summoned U.S. and Iraqi envoys to Damascus to protest against the U.S. military helicopter attack on its civilians, demanding Baghdad to prevent the use of its territories to attack Syria, according to the official SANA news agency.
Source:Xinhua
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