DHAKA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized Democrat runner Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan in Syria saying it would trigger World War Three.

He said the US should focus on defeating the so-called Islamic State rather than convincing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stand down, reports the BBC.

Hillray Clinton has been proposing a no-fly zone over Syria, which some say could lead to conflict with Russian jets.

The Clinton campaign accused Trump of “playing to Americans’ fears”.

Trump also attacked Republicans for not uniting behind his candidacy.

“If we had party unity, we couldn’t lose this election to Hillary Clinton,” 

The Republican standard-bearer struck an apocalyptic tone when criticizing his Democratic rival’s plan to control Syrian air space.

“You’re going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton,” Trump said.

“Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk.”

He also suggested Clinton would be unable to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin after her sharp criticism of him.

Trump questioned “how she is going to go back and negotiate with this man who she has made to be so evil” if she is elected president on 8 November.

The Clinton campaign dismissed the criticism, saying both Republican and Democratic national security experts have denounced Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief.

BDST: 1153 HRS, OCT 26, 2016
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