Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance on Wednesday, vowing to defeat a "conspiracy" against Syria a day after he blamed foreign interests for stoking months of deadly violence.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance on Wednesday, vowing to defeat a "conspiracy" against Syria a day after he blamed foreign interests for stoking months of deadly violence.

"Without a doubt we will defeat the conspiracy, which is nearing its end and will also be the end for (the conspirators) and their plans," Assad told hundreds of thousands of cheering supporters in the capital's central Omayyad Square.

The confident Assad stood at the edge of the throng, security guards in front of him, and said: "I came here to draw from your strength. Thanks to you, I have never felt weak.

In a speech on Tuesday, his first public appearance in months, Assad vowed to crush "terrorism" with an iron fist.

"Regional and international parties who are trying to destabilize Syria can no longer falsify the facts and events," the embattled leader said in the nearly two-hour speech.

In a splendid show of awareness and national feeling, huge masses on Wednesday flocked to the Syrian squares to express support to the Tuesday’s speech of President Bashar al-Assad and to building the renewable Syria.

The participants affirmed the national unity, rejecting all forms of foreign interference and affirming determination to go forwards to reach the aspired-for Syria whose features were outlined by President al-Assad's speech.

Since the early morning, a huge number of citizens have started to flock to the squares of Umayyad in Damascus, Saadallah al-Jabri in Aleppo, al-Muhafaza in Lattakia, Sabaa Bahrat in Deir Ezzour, Late President Square in Hasaka, Post Crossroads in Daraa, Sutan Basha al-Atrash in Sweida and the main squares in Salqin, Jisr al-Shughour and Abu al-Dohour Town in Idleb.

They all called for discarding the sedition and rejecting the misleading campaigns led by some mass media through falsifying the facts and fabricating lies aiming at spreading chaos and undermining Syria's security and stability.

 

Batoul Wehbe contributed to this report.