Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad has vowed to 'defeat the terrorists' after rebels took control of his country's second-largest city, reigniting a bloody civil war.
Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad has vowed to "defeat the terrorists" after rebels took control of his country's second-largest city, reigniting a bloody civil war. The dictator said he would defend Syria's "stability and territorial integrity" and "defeat the terrorists and their supporters", after the insurgents largely overran Aleppo on Saturday, following a lightning attack that appeared to take the Syrian army by storm.
"One of the indications of it going very badly wrong is whenever you get reports coming out of generals being sacked," he told MailOnline. "If this shows how concerned Putin is with everything, it's quite clear that the Syrians and Russians that are backing them have been caught off guard.He added: "It is a typical response from dictatorships to deny that there's any problem that's going on when the complete opposite is out in the public domain.
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