Serbia's president accused Tuesday foreign intelligence services of trying to unseat him in the wake of spreading protests in the Balkan state and that he wouldn't flee the country like the ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

He dismissed comparisons made by critics to ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, stating, ‘If they think I’m Assad, and that I’ll run away somewhere, I will not’

With Syrian opposition forces advancing rapidly toward the capital, Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad’s fate lay in Russia’s hands as his army melted away.