U.S.: Russia is sending Syria attack helicopters

The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and is warning about a dramatic escalation in the Arab country’s 15-month conflict.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the delivery represents the “latest information.” She said the U.S. is concerned as the helicopters “will escalate the conflict quite dramatically.”

Speaking at the Brookings Institution, a liberal-oriented research and policy organization, Clinton called instead for Moscow to help the U.S. push forward a political transition plan for Syria.

There was no immediate response from Russia. Russia has consistently said it would not condone the use of outside forces to end the conflict and has said that it would not supply arms that would aid the government in quelling the uprising.

 

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