The “main battle” for Aleppo in northern Syria aims to “cut the road” between the province and Turkey, not to take the country’s second city, said Syrian President Bashar Assad .
The importance of this road cut is that it is “the main supply route for terrorists,” he said in an exclusive interview with AFP, his first to a media failure since the month last of the Geneva talks and the launch by its army earlier this month of a major military offensive in the region of Aleppo (north) supported by the bombing of the Russian aviation.
Assad believes there is a risk of a Turkish and Saudi intervention in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad said there was a risk of a Turkish and Saudi military intervention in Syria but that his forces would “deal”.
“It’s a possibility that I can not be excluded for the simple reason that (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan is someone intolerant of radical, pro-Muslim Brotherhood and lives Ottoman dream (.. .) It is the same for Saudi Arabia. In any case such an action will not be easy for them and we will certainly deal with it, “he said in an exclusive interview with AFP.
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