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Syria President Bashar al-Assad says Syrians are determined to liberate the whole country from the clutches of foreign-sponsored terrorists, amid a full-scale offensive by the army in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last militant bastion in a nine-year war.
Assad made the comment during a meeting with Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and his accompanying delegation in the capital Damascus on Sunday.
Governments hostile to the Syrian nation, Assad said, are still trying to support terrorists who have taken civilians hostage and use them as human shields against advancing troops in Idlib.
The Syrian president said things cannot remain in the current state at the expense of Syrian lives and Syria’s security and stability.
The pair also discussed regional and international developments in light of the policy of spreading chaos and destabilization pursued by some Western countries, led by the United States.
Both sides also agreed on the necessity of taking joint action to raise the number of countries against such policies and cooperate with them in order to prevent more wars around the world.
Idlib and small parts of the adjacent area in Aleppo form the only large territory in the hands of terrorists after the Syrian military managed to undo militant gains across the country and bring back almost all of the Syrian soil under government control.
The Syrian army has been making steady advances in the past few weeks, liberating a strategic city and a key highway that connects Damascus to Aleppo.
Idlib is now held by an array of terrorists dominated by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Takfiri group, which is led by members of the former al-Qaeda franchise.
