Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants the U.S. to intervene to keep Syrian leader Bashar Assad from being able to deploy his Air Force for attacks on his own citizens.

"Assad has an air force, and that air force is the cause of most of these civilian deaths as we have seen over the years and as we saw again in the last few days," Clinton said during a speech at the Women in the World summit in New York City on Thursday evening.

"And I really believe that we should have and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."

The comment comes two days after a chemical attack that killed more than 70 people.

Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election as the Democratic nominee, once again called for a no-fly zone to be instituted over Syria.

"I still believe we should have done a no-fly zone," Clinton told attendees, knocking Obama's passive policy toward Assad. "We should have been more willing to confront Assad."

Instead, Clinton blamed Russia for backing Assad. Putin "has basically weighed in, particularly with air power, to support this fight to the death policy the Assad has."

Clinton also compared Vladimir Putin's background to Assad's, saying both have similar ways of leading.

"He [Assad] is absolutely a prisoner of his family's expectations, his dead father's looming presence and his delusion, that I believe he now probably could pass a lie detector about, that everyone who oppose him is a terrorist," Clinton said. "That is how Putin thinks."