British air strikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking Prime Minister David Cameron's strategy in the region.<br />British lawmakers approved the bombing of ISIS targets in Syria on Thursday.<br />Hours after that approval, the Royal Air Force struck the oilfields that Cameron's government says are being used to fund attacks on the West.<br />Speaking in an interview conducted before the vote in parliament, the result of which had been widely anticipated, Assad said Cameron's strategy would make the situation worse, not better.<br />"They are going to fail again," he said.<br />"You cannot cut out part of the cancer.<br />You have to extract it.<br />This kind of operation is like cutting out part of the cancer.<br />That will make it spread in the body faster."
