DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has hailed continued victories by the army forces and allies against terrorists across the country, saying his government has weathered the worst part of the conflict and is now moving in the right direction.
Assad made the remarks in Damascus in an interview with the India-based WION television station, in which he expressed satisfaction with the pace the pro-government forces were recapturing territories from terrorists across the Arab country.
"Unless the West and other countries and their allies, their puppets, support those extremists in... a very massive way, I'm sure the worst is behind us,” Assad stated.
"Things now are moving in the right direction, which is a better direction, because we are defeating the terrorists.”
Syrian military forces and allied fighters have recorded major gains against terrorists over the past few months with the most notable of them being the full liberation of the second-largest city of Aleppo in December 2016.