Assad Accuses West of Backing 'Terrorist' Groups in Syria
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Syrian President Bashar Assad renewed his accusation that Western states including France are supporting "terrorist" groups in his country's conflict, at a meeting on Wednesday with a French parliamentary delegation.
"Several countries in the region and the West, including France, are continuing up until now to support terrorism by giving political cover to terrorist groups in Syria and the region," he told three visiting rightwing legislators, quoted by state news agency SANA.
Assad said terrorism was "the main cause of the suffering of the Syrian people... along with the embargo imposed on Syria", warning that it was "an international phenomenon which no border can prevent from spreading".
Syrian authorities classify all opponents of the regime as terrorists.
Adopting a tough line on Syria's conflict that has cost more than 250,000 lives since 2011, French President Francois Hollande said last week: "Nothing must be done to bolster Bashar Assad, who is the problem, and cannot therefore be the solution."
But with pressure mounting within France to soften the position on Assad and seek a compromise, opposition lawmaker Jean-Frederic Poisson, part of the delegation which arrived in Damascus late Tuesday, said any settlement "necessarily requires a dialogue with the Syrian president".
28 October 2015, 16:02
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Yes the West, Gulf, Turkey, Israel and March 14 does indeed support terrorism and wahabbism throughout the world.
Assad have proven himself to be a worthy leader still standing after 4 and a half years.
Even when it looked dark for him he still stayed in his place, no surrender ever.
28 October 2015, 16:03
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puny bugs? Then how come the west didn't attack Iran and Russia if they are so strong?
28 October 2015, 16:04
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Why does the West all of a sudden want to include Iran in the Syrian peace talks?
28 October 2015, 18:52
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for decades syria has harboured encouraged used islamists to its own interestsn nobody said anything...at the beginning of this conflict assad did nothing rather he shot pacific people and let the situation rot liberated islamists knowing they would fight him in return encouraging chaos to then play the victim and be the only option for his country... assad is the cause of this no one else... extremists only seized the opportunity and the syrian regime was caught in its own trap. Now they don't know how to deal with it!
they are just desperate as no iranian irakian lebanese militia could save him...
