Al-Assad's adviser says Damascus seeks end to war
MOSCOW. Oct 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The Syrian authorities seek the peaceful path leading to settlement of the armed conflict in their country, Syrian presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban said.
"We seek peace and in the past 10 days the important areas near Damascus were liberated by way of negotiations," Shaaban said on Friday when speaking at the scientific conference titled 'National Reconciliation and Syrian Future', which organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oriental Studies.
Shaaban also noted that on the ground, it is impossible to tell the militants of the IS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organizations (outlawed in Russia) from the moderate opposition troops.
"When the Western countries say that they support the moderate opposition, they actually support terrorists," Shaaban said.
"The U.S. supports opponents of the regime in order to dismember Syria and Iraq and let Israel dominate in the region," Shaaban said.
"The West will itself fall victim of the terrorists that they have nurtured," Shaaban warned, recalling that such was the case of Al Qaeda and the acts of terror committed in the U.S. on September 11, 2001.