Condemning Friday's Paris terror attacks and sending his condolences to the French people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad noted that the attacks were reminiscent of the daily terror and turmoil faced by the Syrian people over the past five years through the country's violent civil conflict.
"The savage terror France suffered from yesterday is what the Syrian people have been enduring for over five years," Assad said, cited by French radio station Europe1.The president noted that unfortunately, "wrong policies adopted by Western states, particularly France, toward events in the region," including Paris's "ignorance of the support of a number of its allies to terrorists, are reasons behind the expansion of terrorism." According to Assad, France and other Western nations must now work to "fix this mistake, and to take effective measures to stop logistical support for the terrorists, through to their utter destruction."
