The US was not going to get drawn into the Syrian civil war, US defence secretary James Mattis said.
“We just refuse to get drawn into a fight there in the Syria civil war, we try to end that one through diplomatic engagement,” he told reporters. “If somebody comes after us, bombs us or takes a heading on us or fires on us, then under legitimate self-defence we’ll do whatever we have to do to stop it.”
He added the US would not fire “unless they are the enemy, unless they are ISIS.”
