PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad vowed yesterday to liberate every inch of Syria in the same way that his troops recaptured the historic town of Palmyra earlier this year from Islamic State (Isis).
He told the recently elected parliament that the situation on the ground was much better than it was months ago, urging people “not to worry because conditions are good.”
Mr Assad said: “The way we liberated Palmyra and, before that, many areas, we will liberate every last bit of Syria from their hands. We have no choice but to be victorious.
“Our war on terrorism will continue — not because we like war. They imposed the war on us,” he said.
“The shedding of blood will not end until we uproot terrorism wherever it is.”
Mr Assad blamed the opposition for the failure of three rounds of indirect peace talks in Geneva this year, blasting his opponents as “traitors for foreign countries who have become mats for the feet of their masters.”
His speech coincided with a military push by government forces in the northern province of Raqqa, the city which is the seat of Isis’s self-proclaimed caliphate.
Syria’s air force destroyed several Isis positions south of the provincial capital, state news agency Sana reported yesterday.
And Syrian troops were nearing the Tabqa air base, the last government foothold in the province before it was taken by the extremists in August 2014.
Sherfan Darwish of the Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance between the Kurdish YPG and other Syrian rebel groups, said that his fighters targeting Manbij to the north of Raqqa had taken control of two villages. ARAB NEWS
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