President Bashar al-Assad said peace would only come to war-torn Syria when the West and its Middle Eastern allies "stop supporting terrorists", in an interview aired Tuesday on Czech TV, AFP reports.
Asked what it would take to bring an end to Syria's devastating four-year civil war, Assad said: "When those countries that I mentioned - France, UK, US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and some other - stop supporting those terrorists."
The next "day the situation will be better and in a few months we will have full peace in Syria, definitely. If they stop," said Assad, whose regime receives direct military backing from Russia.