Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to 'live or die' in his own country, and warned against any foreign intervention in the crisis engulfing his nation
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"I am not a puppet. I was not made by the west to go to the west or to any other country," the Guardian quoted Assad, as saying.
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“I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. I do not think the west is going [to intervene], but if they do so, nobody can tell what is next,” he said.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
“I think the price of this invasion if it happened is going to be more than the whole world can afford,” he added.
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According to the paper, Assad’s remarks came days after British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested he could be offered "safe passage" if he stepped down.
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Assad also defended his war-torn country as the "last stronghold of secularism and stability" in the region, the paper said.
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