Syrian President Bashar Assad has given an interview to a Spanish newspaper in which he asserts that Turkey need to stop aiding ISIS militants in order to help Russia and Iran to help the Syrian army defeat the terrorist organisation. The interview was given to newspaper El Pais, and the Syrian Times have reproduced the entire text of the interview below: Question 1: You have recently allowed humanitarian aid to go into seven besieged areas. Some claim there are at least 486,000 people living in those areas, some for even more than three years. Why did this happen so late in the conflict? President Assad: Actually, it hasn’t happened recently; it’s been there since the beginning of the crisis. We never make embargo on any region in Syria. There’s a difference between embargo and the army surrounding a certain area because of the militants, and that’s natural in such a security case or military case. But the problem with those areas is that the militants themselves took the food and the basic needs of those people, the people there, and gave it to their militants or sell it to the people with very high prices. As a government, we never [...]