The war in Syria will “drag on” indefinitely as long as opposition fighters continued to receive support from foreign powers, the country’s President Bashar Al-Assad said in an interview with the Associated Press.
Turkey, Saudi and the US all support opposition fighters in Syria but Al-Assad said the country will bounce back from the war and be more unified if this backing stopped.
He denied the existence of a siege on the northern city of Aleppo, saying: “If there’s really a siege around the city of Aleppo, people would have been dead by now,” questioned how rebels were able to smuggle in arms but apparently not food or medicine.
The Syrian leader said the killing of around 70 regime soldiers following airstrikes “wasn’t an accident by one airplane… It was four airplanes”, dismissing American claims that the strike was intended to hit Daesh sites.
He also dismissed claims that Syrian or Russian jets had targeted aid convoys heading to Aleppo during the ceasefire, saying whatever American officials say “has no credibility” and is “just lies”.
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