Syria Clashes Kill 30 as Assad Warns of ‘Another Afghanistan’

At least 30 people were killed in clashes between Syrian army defectors and security forces as President Bashar al-Assad warned that foreign intervention could turn the country into “another Afghanistan.”

Any move by the West to interfere in Syria would “cause an earthquake,” al-Assad said in an interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper, ahead of an Arab League meeting in Doha today to discuss the violence. “Do you want to see another Afghanistan, or tens of Afghanistans?”