A number of Western-backed Arab dictatorships have offered to lend their war jets to back US President Barack Obama’s plan for possible airstrikes on Syria, despite Damascus' warnings that any attack on its soil constitutes a violation of its sovereignty and will be considered an act of aggression.
On Thursday, US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Arab leaders in a meeting in Saudi Arabia to support Obama's plans for military operations in the region against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which include greater overflight rights for US warplanes, airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, and training and arming the so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels inside Saudi territory.
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"I don't want to leave you with the impression that these Arab members haven't offered to do airstrikes because several of them have," a senior US State Department official told reporters in Paris on Sunday.