Australian air strikes in Syria may help Assad but still worth doing: ex-CIA chief David Petraeus

By Tom Allard
Updated September 3 2015 - 1:13am, first published 12:10am

The former CIA director and commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, David Petraeus, has backed the proposed plan for Australia to extend its anti-Islamic State bombing campaign into Syria, even as he admitted it would help the "despicable" regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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