Bashar al-Assad says there is no end in sight to Syrian civil war

Source: The Guardian

Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has said there is no immediate prospect of an end to the country's 17-month-old civil war, adding that more time is needed for his "heroic" armed forces to wipe out the opposition.

In an interview with Syria's pro-government Addounia TV channel, Assad shrugged off recent damaging defections by senior regime figures, and suggested the situation for ordinary Syrians was now gradually improving. Events on the ground on Wednesday, however, suggested otherwise, with heavy shelling near the capital Damascus and a major rebel attack on a strategic northern airbase.

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