Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received on Thursday Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh al-Fayyad who conveyed a message from Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, the message concentrated also on security of border in light of recent developments.

SANA quoted Assad as saying that the Turkish criminal aggression launched by Erdogan’s regime on the country comes in the context of external greed in countries of the region.

The Syrian President vowed that; “It is a blatant invasion and a clear aggression to which Syria has responded it in many places through striking its agents and terrorists. Syria will respond and confront it with all its forms in any region of Syrian territory through all available legitimate means.”