Syria condemned the US military strike on targets in a village close to the Iraqi border on Sunday evening, and said it holds the US responsible for the incident. A senior Syrian official told the official Syrian TV network that Syria demands that the Iraqi government investigate the violation of Syrian sovereignty and prevent further attacks on Syria from Iraqi territory, Israel Radio reported. The Syrian Foreign Ministry summoned the stand-in US ambassador in Syria and Iraqi officials in Damascus in order to formally express objection to the attack carried out on Syrian territory.