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Moscow: Syria is not witnessing a “civil war” but a struggle to uproot the “plague of terrorism, abduction and payment of ransoms, aggressions and explosions”, the country’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. [caption id=“attachment_344071” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Reuters”]  [/caption] The Syrian Foreign Ministry, in a statement in the wake of recent claims by UN officials about “civil war” like situation in the country, said “any talk about a civil war in Syria doesn’t reflect the reality”. “Syria is not witnessing a ‘civil war’, but a struggle to uproot the plague of terrorism and encounter the killing, abduction and payment of ransoms, aggressions and explosions,” the state-run SANA news agency reported. UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said Wednesday that Syria was now in a full-scale civil war. IANS
The Syrian Foreign Ministry, in a statement in the wake of recent claims by UN officials about “civil war” like situation in the country, said “any talk about a civil war in Syria doesn’t reflect the reality”.
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