ISIL claimed responsibility for those attacks. In an interview with Britain’s Sunday. “It has to be from the air, from the ground, to have co-operation with troops on the ground – the national troops – for the interference to be legal”, he stated.
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Assad said the the discovery by European security officials of plots to commit terror attacks had exposed terrorist sleeper cells.
The PM said the “moderates” would open a political solution to the war, and retake territory from jihadists after they had been weakened by air strikes.
“The fight against Daesh is crucial, but it will only be totally effective if all the Syrian and regional forces are united”, Fabius told the French regional newspaper Le Progres on Saturday.
“You can not cut out part of the cancer. You have to extract it”. “That will make it spread in the body faster”, said the president.
“Now in the middle of the war, I’m not going to say I’m leaving for any reason”, he said.
“They also discussed ways to further bolster our already robust counterterrorism cooperation, and the President, on behalf of the American people and accepted the Prime Minister’s (Cameron) condolences for the loss of life in the San Bernardino shootings this week”, the statement said.
On the other hand, Assad supported the role of Russian airstrikes in the country and said that Moscow’s support is “very important” and that “it has had a significant impact on both the military and political arena in Syria”.
A US-born Muslim who along with his wife gunned down 14 people in California may have been radicalized and had been in contact with known terrorism suspects, reports said Thursday… “We need to see the situation not how you want it to be, but how it really is”, the French politician said.
Britain’s Royal Air Force has been bombing ISIL targets in Iraq since 2014.
While Assad’s regime has been criticized by the West, which has called on him to step down and end the long-drawn Syrian civil war that has killed thousands and rendered millions homeless, the recent emergence of ISIS has triggered an aerial campaign aimed at eliminating the group’s activities.
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French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius says France no longer expects Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, to leave before a negotiated political transition begins, Agence France-Presse reported.
