Assad: US will sell out groups relying on it

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that Washington would not protect the groups "betting on" it, in an apparent reference to U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in the north.

"The Americans will put you in their pockets so you can be tools in the barter, and they have started with [it]," he said, without naming the groups. "Nobody will protect you except your state."