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Ammon News - By Banan Malkawi

AMMONNEWS - The United States is not doing enough to support the situation in Syria, US Senator John McCain said on Saturday, stressing that the US needs to supply the Syrian opposition with "more and heavier weapons."

McCain, who is in Jordan attending the World Economic Forum held at the Dead Sea, said in statements to Ammon News that "despite Russia believing that Assad is losing, right now he is winning, because of the shameful inaction of the United States towards the Syrian people who are struggling."

McCain said he supports US military intervention "short of US boots on the ground," that includes equipping the opposition forces with heavier weapons, establishing no-fly zones and safe zones, and taking out Syrian regime's air power.

"Right now [the Syrian people] are being massacred. It's a shame," he said.

"We need to give more weapons and heavier weapons to the opposition needed to protect themselves," McCain told Ammon News, citing that Russia, Iran, and Lebanon's Hezbollah's support for the Syrian regime is fueling the crisis.

He added that the United States traditionally intervened to end conflicts without putting US troops on the ground, citing US intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo to end the massacres there using air power.

McCain, the senior US Republican Senator from Arizona, said that he sees no place for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the future of Syria, voicing his support for the Syrian opposition on this position.