US envoy: it is almost certain ISIS hit gas pipeline

US envoy James Jeffrey from Geneva said that the explosion that targeted a gas pipeline in Syria bears the hallmarks of ISIS.

US envoy: it is almost certain ISIS hit gas pipeline
24 August, 2020   09:28
NEWS DESK

The US special envoy to Syria James Jeffrey, according to Reuters news agency, "The explosion that occurred in a gas pipeline, at dawn on Monday, it was almost certainly a strike by ISIS."

"We are still studying the matter, but it is almost certain that it is an attack by ISIS," Jeffrey told reporters in Geneva at the start of talks sponsored by the United Nations for the Syrian Constitutional Committee.

Earlier, the Syrian official media quoted the Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources Ali Ghanem as saying that the explosion that hit the Arab Gas Pipeline and caused electricity cuts across Syria on Monday was caused by a "terrorist attack."