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		</div><p>Syrian president Bashar Assad has said US air strikes on Syrian troops were &#8220;definitely intentional&#8221;, lasting for an hour, and blamed the US for the collapse of a ceasefire deal brokered with Russia.</p>
<p>In an interview with The Associated Press, Mr Assad said the war, now in its sixth year, is likely to &#8220;drag on&#8221; because of what he said was continued external support for his opponents.</p>
<p>Mr Assad, in the interview conducted on Wednesday, said the US &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have the will&#8221; to join Russia in fighting Islamic militants in Syria.</p>
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<p>The Syrian president rejected accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo and denied that his troops were preventing food from entering the rebel-held part of the city.</p>
<p>He said his enemies alone were to blame for nearly six years of devastation across Syria, and while acknowledging some mistakes, he repeatedly denied any excesses by his troops.</p>
<p>He said the war was only likely to &#8220;drag on&#8221; because of continued external support for his opponents.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you have many external factors that you don&#8217;t control, it&#8217;s going to drag on and no one in this world can tell you when&#8221; the war will end, he said, insisting Syrians who fled the country could return within a few months if the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar stopped backing insurgents.<br />
He spoke in Damascus&#8217; Muhajireen palace.</p>
<p>The Syrian capital, seat of Assad&#8217;s power, has stayed relatively untouched throughout the conflict, spared the devastation inflicted on other, opposition-held areas of the country.</p>
<p>In recent months, Mr Assad&#8217;s forces have taken rebel strongholds in suburbs of the capital, bolstering security and reducing the threat of mortar shells.</p>
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<p>The attack on the aid convoy outside Aleppo took place on Monday night, hitting a warehouse as aid workers unloaded cargo and triggering huge explosions.</p>
<p>Witnesses described a sustained, two-hour barrage that included barrel bombs &#8211; crude, unguided explosives that the Syrian government drops from helicopters.</p>
<p>A senior US administration official said the US believes with a very high degree of confidence that a Russian-piloted aircraft carried out the strike.</p>
<p>Mr Assad, who inherited power from his father and is now in his 16th year in office, dismissed the claims, saying whatever American officials say &#8220;has no credibility&#8221; and is &#8220;just lies&#8221;.<br />
Like Syria, Russia has denied carrying out the convoy bombing.</p>
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