Syrian President Bashar Assad accused Washington of conducting a "premeditated attack", which supported ISIL, when the US-led coalition's aircraft bombed the government troops in Deir ez-Zor,.
"It was premeditated attack by the American forces, because ISIL was shrinking because of the Syrian and Russian and Iranian cooperation against ISIL, and because al-Nusra which is al-Qaeda-affiliated group had been defeated in many areas in Syria, so the Americans wanted to undermine the position of the Syrian Army; they attacked our army in Deir ez-Zor," Sputnik cited him as saying.
The leader of the Arab republic deplored the backers of opposition fighters for taking advantage of lulls in violence to provide logistic support, armament and other reinforcements.
"When it didn’t work, they ask the terrorists to make it fail or to start attacking again. So who's to blame? It’s the United States and its allies, the Western countries, because for them, terrorists and terrorism are a card they want to play on the Syrian arena, it’s not a value, they’re not against terrorists," he stressed.
"I mean the Americans, they wanted to use the terrorists as a card to play the political game to serve their own interests at the expense of the interests of other countries in the world," Assad added.
