Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has warned Western countries that their support for "terrorists" in his civil war will see them "pay the price sooner or later."
Al-Assad spoke in a rare interview with British newspaper The Sunday Times at the weekend (3 March), after the EU last week agreed to send "non-lethal" aid to rebels.
Details of what the assistance will be remain vague.
But referring to suicide attacks in Syrian cities in recent months and to 9/11 in the US in 2001, a...
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