24 minutes agoAssad: We were close to the US-Russian direct conflict.
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared today that Syria could come to the direct conflict between Russia and the US. According to him, the US should learn from the sufferings in Iraq and should give up Syria, and promised to renew Syrian regions, which were kept by extremists backed by [...]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared today that Syria could come to the direct conflict between Russia and the US.
According to him, the US must learn from the sufferings in Iraq and must give up Syria, and promised to renew Syrian regions, which were held by US-backed extremists.
We were near the direct conflict. If we don't force these regions, Americans have to leave. They went to Iraq without legal grounds and look what happened to them. They should have learned from the lecture. Iraq is no exception, as if it is neither Syria. The people will no longer accept foreigners in this region”, Assad said in an interview for Russia Today.
He said Moscow has left the West from the beginning of devastating air strikes in Syria last month, and believes Damascus is close to victory in the 7-year war, despite the US's continuing “involvement of”.
