2:20 p.m. (1120 GMT)
Syria’s foreign minister says his government is not pinning any hopes on the U.S.-led coalition striking at Islamic State group militants in his country.
Walid al-Moallem says the coalition was active in preventing the Kurdish town of Kobani from falling into IS hands last year but that this support seems to have “evaporated” after that.
Speaking at a press conference in Damascus on Wednesday, al-Moallem said the United States did nothing to prevent the ancient town of Palmyra in Syria or the province of Anbar in Iraq from falling into IS hands.
He also says that security coordination between the Syrian and Iraqi armies “has not reached the desired levels.”