Donald Trump slams Hillary Clinton’s plans for Syria saying she’ll spark a deadly Third World War
The Republican candidate claimed her policy for Syria would erupt into a deadly conflict with Russia
DONALD Trump says Hillary Clinton's plan for Syria will spark WWIII because of the potential for clashes with nuclear-armed Russia.
The Republican candidate has also claimed defeating ISIS is a higher priority than persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
His scathing comments come as both contenders for the White House prepare for the final run in to voting on November 8.
On Syria's civil war, Trump said Clinton could drag the United States into a world war with a more aggressive posture toward resolving the conflict.
Clinton has called for the establishment of a no-fly zone and "safe zones" on the ground to protect non-combatants.
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Some analysts fear that protecting those zones could bring the United States into direct conflict with Russian fighter jets.
"What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria. You're going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton.
"You're not fighting Syria any more, you're fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right?
"Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk.
Clinton's campaign dismissed the criticism, noting that both Republican and Democratic national security experts have denounced Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief.
"Once again, he is parroting Putin's talking points and playing to Americans' fears, all while refusing to lay out any plans of his own for defeating ISIS or alleviating humanitarian suffering in Syria," a Clinton spokesman said.
Trump said Assad is much stronger now than he was three years ago and said getting Assad to leave power was less important than defeating ISIS.
"Assad is secondary, to me, to ISIS," he said.
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