The US-led coalition against Daesh has neither a UN sanction nor Syria's invitation to wage war on its territory whereas Russia started its operation at the request of President Bashar Assad.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) � Russia and Iran are the only two countries carrying out military operations against Daesh with any type of legitimacy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said.

�It is impossible to talk about the legitimacy of anti-terrorist efforts in Syria of any other foreign country except for Russia and Iran. The formed US-led �anti-Daesh coalition� doesn�t have this legitimacy because there�s no UN Security Council sanction for this or an invitation from the legitimate Syrian government,� Syromolotov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

By Sputnik News