Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
says the government forces will retake the whole country from terrorists.
In an interview with AFP released on Friday, the Syrian president said the process could "take a long time."
Assad said the eventual goal of the government is to liberate the whole country from the control of the terrorists.
"Regardless of whether we can do that or not, this is a goal we are seeking to achieve without any hesitation," President Assad stated. "It makes no sense for us to say that we will give up any part."
He said that it would be possible to "put an end to this problem in less than a year" if all terrorists' supply routes from
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, Jordan and Iraq were cut, otherwise "the solution will take a long time and will incur a heavy price."
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which began in March 2011, has claimed the lives of some 470,000 people.