Assad meets figures for 'iftar' Ramadan meal: SANA
AFP
DAMASCUS- President Bashar al-Assad shared the "iftar" meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with political and religious figures Sunday, praising Syrians for supporting the army, state news agency SANA said.
Assad "joined an iftar (evening) meal... with prominent figures in Syrian society including party-affiliated and independent politicians, as well as Muslim and Christian clerics, syndicates, unions and civil society members," SANA said.
The UN says more than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's civil war, which broke out in March 2011 after the regime unleashed a brutal crackdown against widespread protests calling for political change.
The government has consistently blamed the violence in Syria on foreign-backed "terrorist" groups.
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