BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad said Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq were united in battling terrorism and were likely to succeed, but warned that the cost of failure would be devastating for the Middle East.
The four nations would achieve "practical results", unlike a U.S.-led international coalition whose year-long campaign of air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq had seen an expansion of violence, Assad was quoted on Sunday as telling Iranian television in an interview.
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