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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has alleged that Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan in Syria would trigger World War Three.

Trump advised the US to focus on defeating Islamic State (IS) rather than removing President Bashar al-Assad.

Clinton has proposed a no-fly zone over Syria, but some analysts fear that protecting those zones could bring the US into direct conflict with Russian fighter jets.

“You’re going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton,” Trump in an interview focused on foreign policy.

“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.”

On the plot to remove al-Assad, he said: “What we should do is focus on IS. We should not be focusing on Syria.”

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

“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.

“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,” Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich said in a statement.