Assad warns "failure awaits" any U.S. military strike against Syria

Syrian President Bashar Assad warned in an interview with a Russian newspaper that a U.S. military intervention in the country’s deepening civil war would fail and denied reports that his forces used chemical weapons against his own people.

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“Failure awaits the United States as in all previous wars it has unleashed, starting with Vietnam and up to the present day,” he told the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper in an interview published Monday.

Assad said reports that he had used chemical weapons last week in an attack on the outskirts of Damascus were “nonsense,” because government forces had been close to the area where troops were said to have fired poison gas projectiles.

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