Syria will defend itself against any aggression – Assad

President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday
that Syria will defend itself against any
attacks, as Washington and its allies mull
military action in response to the alleged use
of chemical arms.
“Syria will defend itself in the face of any
aggression, and threats will only increase its
commitment to its principles and its
independence,” the embattled leader told a
visiting delegation of Yemeni politicians,
according to state television.
“Syria, with its resistant people and valiant
army, is determined to wipe out terrorism
which is being backed by Israel and Western
nations to serve their own purposes of
sowing division in the region, fragmenting
its people and forcing them into
submission,” he said in his first reaction to
the potential US strikes.
“The people are the guarantors of victory
and that is what is happening in Syria,” said
Assad, whose regime uses the terms
“terrorism” or “terrorists” to describe the
rebels battling to end his rule. AFP