Assad says won’t accept outside solution to Syria crisis

PanARMENIAN.Net - Syria's president has said he will not accept any solution to his country's crisis imposed from outside, as major powers prepare to meet in Geneva, BBC News reported.

Bashar al-Assad told Iranian television it was an "internal issue which has nothing to do with foreign countries".

No amount of foreign pressure would make his government change its policy on internal security, he added.

Meanwhile, government forces have continued to bombard the Damascus suburb of Douma and the city of Homs.

At least 25 people, including 11 civilians and 13 soldiers, were killed across the country on Friday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Thursday, June 28 was one of the bloodiest days of the 17-month-old uprising, with more than 125 reportedly people dying, including 43 in Douma alone.

Photographs and videos have been published by opposition activists purportedly showing more than a dozen bodies laid out on a street in the north-western suburb of the capital, including several children.

Syria's state news agency said troops were pursuing "terrorist groups".