PanARMENIAN.Net - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the recent recapture of the strategic northwestern city of Aleppo from rebels is a victory not just for his country, but also for its Russian and Iranian allies, Press TV reports.
Assad made the remarks at a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari and his accompanying delegation in Damascus on Thursday, December 22.
Aleppo’s liberation “is also a relapse for all the countries that are hostile towards the Syrian people and that have used terrorism as a means to realize their interests,” he said.
The Syrian head of state also hailed the battlefield successes as a “basic step on the road to ending terrorism in the whole of Syrian territory and creating the right circumstances for a solution to end the war.” Jaberi Ansari, for his part, briefed Assad on the on...
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