The newspaper quoted the former commander of the military association in Deir al-Zour, Fayez Asmar, as saying that "the United States has installed air defense and electronic radar systems."
With those systems, the US is said to want to create a no-fly zone in an area stretching from Manbij to Deir el-Zour, to create chaos in the region for long term.
In the meantime, Syria's UN ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari reiterated his country's refusal of possess chemical weapons, after implementing its obligations with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).