Don't blame me for Isis, says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has declared his country was not a breeding ground for Isis, blaming the creation of the jihadist organisation on the west.
“I can tell you Daesh doesn’t have the natural incubator, social incubator, within Syria,” he said in a television interview with Italian national broadcaster Rai, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.