PRESIDENT AL-ASSAD DISCUSSES WITH AL-FAYYAD ENHANCING COOPERATION ON COUNTER-TERRORISM AND BORDER CONTROL

Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad received Monday Chairman of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq Faleh al-Fayyad. Talks during the meeting dealt with means of enhanciong cooperation between Syria and Iraq in the domain of combating terrorism, effective coordination to control borders and hunting extremist organizations and their remnants that seek to threaten the security of the two countries. President al-Assad considered that terrorism that kills and sheds blood is the same everywhere in the world, and that the supporters of terrorism in Syria and Iraq are the same in other places, regardless of the names of those terrorist organizations. The President added that the steadfastness and force of the Syrian and Iraqi armies were the basis for achieving successive victories against terrorists and their supporters. Source: National News Agency - Lebanon