Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
said on Sunday the army had been forced to give up areas in order to hold onto more important ones in its fight with hard boys, and the scale of the war meant the military faced a man power shortage.
He also said groups fighting to topple him had received increased backing from their state sponsors in a reference to countries including
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
"Sometimes, in some circumstances, we are forced to give up areas to move those forces to the areas that we want to hold onto," Assad said in a defiant televised speech in which he said were no compromise solutions in the war.
"We must define the important regions that the armed forces hold onto so it doesn't allow the collapse of the rest of the areas," Assad said. "The army is capable ... Everything is available, but there is a shortfall in human capacity," he said.
Assad has faced a series of battlefield setbacks since March: He lost most of the northwestern province of Idlib to an hard boy alliance including the al Qaeda-backed Nusra Front, and important areas of the southern border region to mainstream groups of the "Southern Front".
The ultra-hardline Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group also seized the central city of Palmyra from the Syrian military in May.