US military threat is real – Kerry

The threat of US military action against Syria remains “real,” Washington’s top diplomat said on September 15, a day after striking a deal with Russia to destroy Damascus’s chemical weapons stockpile. Kerry’s remarks were made following a four-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, where they discussed the US-Russian agreement on eradicating Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons, and also talked about the ongoing Middle East peace talks. “Make no mistake, we have taken no options off the table,” Kerry warned after news of the deal appeared to stave off the threat of a US-led military strike on the Syrian regime after a chemical attack last month on a Damascus suburb.

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