France on Tuesday hailed the recapture by Syrian forces of the ancient city of Palmyra as "positive news", but stressed that Damascus bore the main blame for the war in Syria.
"The advances against Daesh today cannot erase the fact that the (Syrian) regime bears the main responsibility for the conflict and its 270,000 dead over the past five years," said foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal, using the Arabic name for the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group.
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