U.S. in No Position to Condemn Alleged Russian Transfer of Helicopter Gunships to Syrian Regime admin, June 16, 2012August 16, 2024 Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies June 13, 2012. [Republished by National Catholic Reporter & ZNetwork] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has claimed that “there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria,” though the Russian government denies the accusation. If true, it would be highly disturbing, given the Syrian regime’s widespread use of such weapons against unarmed civilians. Amnesty International and other human rights groups have called for an immediate end of arms transfers to the Syrian regime, particularly of weapons that have been used to target civilians… Thousands of Salvadoran civilians are believed to have been killed by U.S.-supplied helicopter gunships during the 1980s… Foreign Policy in Focus Russia Syria US Middle East Policy