Syrian dictator Bashar Assad claimed in an interview on Sunday that his regime has meetings “from time to time” with officials from the Biden administration about withdrawing American forces that are “illegally occupying part of our lands.”
Assad said that “these meetings do not lead to anything,” but “there is always hope” that he might someday mend fences with the U.S. He did not elaborate precisely who attended the meetings or where they were held.
The Syrian ruler made these remarks during a conversation with a Russia-backed Georgian official, which Syria’s state SANA news agency broadcast on Sunday.
In an interview with Russia’s state-controlled Channel One on Sunday, Assad lamented that Western nations have not produced a true “statesman” since Ronald Reagan in the
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