Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said on Monday that fighting the “terrorists” in his country takes precedence to fighting Israel. “Terrorists” is the term the Syrian president routinely uses to describe the anti-regime rebels trying to topple him.
Speaking in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al Manar television, Assad hinted that Syria would not retaliate for last week’s Israeli airstrikes in Syria, which came after rockets from Syrian territory were fired onto the Israeli side of the Golan Heights.
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