Assad says Syria can confront external aggression


  • World
  • Sunday, 01 Sep 2013

BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday Syria was capable of confronting any external aggression and that threats of a U.S. strike would not discourage the country from a fight against what it described as "terrorism".

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday there should be a military strike on Syria in response to an August 21 poison gas attack which U.S. intelligence officials said killed more than 1,400 people.

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