World Bulletin / News Desk

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has compared the Paris to the daily violence in Syria, French media have reported. "Yesterday France has known what we have been living in Syria over the past five years," Assad was quoted as saying by Europe 1.

The remark was reported by a journalist with the French broadcaster, who is in Syria with a delegation of French MPs that met Assad on 14 November. It comes as President François Hollande declared a nationwide a nationwide state of emergency after describing a string attacks at six locations in the capital as a "horror".