Pro-regime Syrian daily revealed Monday that Washington and Damascus are cooperating through a third party in order to conduct airstrikes against Islamic State (IS), pointing out that said coordination enabled the Syrian Army to destroy IS targets.

Al-Watan newspaper quoted Western diplomatic sources in Paris as saying that the cooperation is ongoing through a third party which is providing the Syrian regime with banks of goals and the movement of IS militants to strike them.

The sources mocked the Obama administration's repeated denial of any potential coordination with Syria on airstrikes against Islamists, saying that "it is probably due to the assurances pledged to Saudi Arabia and Qatar as not to deal with the Syrian regime so that the US can gain both countries' financial support to the long-term war, as seen by US president Barack Obama."

The sources expected the US would maintain such denying statements until the formation of the anti-ISIS coalition is finally achieved.  

The same sources opined that Washington would find itself unable to keep on ruling out such coordination given the existent proofs on the Intelligence cooperation between both countries, mainly showing through the qualitative operations conducted by Syrian troops against IS' strongholds and depots.