President Al-Assad: Aleppo Will Become Graveyard for Takfiri Terrorists

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists will gain no more grounds in Aleppo and the flash point will become a "graveyard" for them.

Al-Assad made the remarks during a speech addressing Syria's People's Assembly of the 2nd legislative term on Tuesday.

Russia vowed to provide Syrian government troops with the "the most active" air support around Aleppo following the death of scores of people during fierce clashes with terrorists over the weekend.

The northwestern city has been one of the strongholds of the terrorists over the past few years.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy it blames on some regional and Western governments. According to a February report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict had claimed the lives of over 470,000 people in total since March 2011.

President al-Assad said the Turkish government had been facilitating the infiltration of the militants into Syria through the northern border. He noted that the "fascist" regime of Erdogan was focusing on Aleppo because it is the last hope for his Muslim Brotherhood project.

"Aleppo will be the grave where all the dreams and hopes of that butcher will be buried," said President al-Assad.

Elsewhere in his remarks, President al-Assad said the unity of the Syrian nation is not bound to geographical borders. He also commented on the constitution, saying the parliament will discuss a new constitution in the future.

He noted that this newly elected Assembly is different from the previous ones in that the voters have elected candidates who had lived the suffering and are thus willing to give, calling on the Assembly members to follow a certain approach and guide for the next stage which is working for the other and not one's self just like the martyrs, wounded and all those who made sacrifices have done.

The President said there are international conflicts that had spawned regional conflicts and directly reflected on the region and on Syria in particular, elaborating that the world is witnessing international conflicts between countries that seek to maintain their sovereignty and independence and other countries that work to realize the interests of others even at the expense of their own people's interest.

President al-Assad said it is no longer secret that the essence of the political process of the countries supporting terrorism is directed at hitting at the heart of concept of the homeland which is the constitution.

"They believed that the core of their political scheme after their plot of terrorism failed was to hit the constitution, and thus creating chaos," he added, noting that the scheme was for terrorism to come and fully take over and later be given the attribute of moderation.

The Syrian president went on saying that the countries supporting terrorism had to greatly resort to sectarian terms in order for them to consolidate their schemes, as "the sectarian regime turns the people of a homeland into adversaries, and that's when the imperialist states put themselves forward as rulers of the groups inside the homeland."

"Unity starts not with geography but with the unity of the citizens," al-Assad said.