Syrian President Bashar al-Assad compared Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed 127 people, to what Syria has been coping with for years of violent civil war.
"What France suffered from savage terror is what the Syrian people have been enduring for over five years," the Syrian President was quoted as saying on state media and Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen.
He also blamed the West for expansion of global terror.
Western support of insurgents in Syria has fuelled "expansion of terror" abroad, the state media quoted him as saying.
The remarks came as French President François Hollande declared a nationwide state of emergency after describing a string attacks at six popular locations in the capital as a “horror."
Leaders around the world declared solidarity with the French people, describing the attacks as crime against humanity.
The West blame Assad for killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in his country during the four-and-half-year long uprising-turned-civil war.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the US and its allies demand Assad's resignation for a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks in Paris.