Syrian president says he supports dialogue to end civil war

“Concern for our soldiers forces us to let go of some areas.”“When we concentrate our forces in an important area, what happens is that we bring reinforcements but this is usually at the expense of other areas, ” Assad said.

President al-Assad Said. The mastermind is the Master and they use terrorism as a main tool, while the political solution is a substitute tool, pointing out that.in dialogue there are three models: the national, the agent and the opportunist.

In April, an alliance of Islamic factions, including al-Qaida’s Nusra Front, captured Jisr al-Shughour, the Syrian military’s last major stronghold in Idlib province.

In recent months, government forces have been pushed out of nearly all of the northwestern province of Idlib, as well as losing the ancient city of Palmyra.

The estimated number of fighters in the Syrian regime’s army was about 200.000 before the start of crisis in March 2011, in addition to more than 300.000 reservists. But it was an open question whether his responses would reassure loyalists anxious that the government could be losing its hold on the embattled country. “Everything is available, but there is a shortfall in human capacity”, he said. “Despite that, I am not presenting a dark picture”.

Commenting on the presidential pardon for draft dodgers, Assad said “there is no collapse in the Syrian army and the people are joining the army and we will stand and achieve victory”, he said, adding that he issued the pardon to help those who averted the military service to return.

In the assessment of many diplomats and analysts, Mr Assad has been forced to forgo some far-flung parts of the country to focus efforts on protecting more defensible areas in the west.

“Promises from outside for those living there will remain mere illusions as long as there are fearless soldiers in the Army and Armed Forces defending their homeland, fighting in the hardest circumstances and dying for Syria to survive”. He also addressed the recent Iranian nuclear agreement, saying: “We are at a crucial time with no compromises”. “From a military point of view, holding to this area, or that patch, would lead to the recovery of the other areas”. He publicly acknowledged Hezbollah’s “important” and “effective” assistance for the first time. He also commended Russian Federation and China for supporting the government at the United Nations Security Council.

Speaking in Damascus, Assad also said any bid to end the conflict that was not based on fighting “terrorism” would be “meaningless”.

In his speech, Assad congratulated his best friend in Tehran for pulling off this feat in Vienna and commended the “positive changes in western attitudes to the {Syrian] conflict”.