Syria urges international community to honor its counter-terrorism obligations in letters addressed to UN
President Bashar al-Assad did an interview with the U.S. CBS News. Following is the full text, as was published by SANA
Is it all a daydream – or a nightmare – when I call for the withdrawal of foreign militias, the end to shelling, the punishment of the guilty, the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes, and an effective Arab role to stop the machine of death?
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