Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Thursday vowed to continue to fight the rebels trying to oust him while calling UN-led peace talks fruitless.
Speaking in an interview with Belarusian TV Channel ONT and quoted by Reuters, Assad said that the de-escalation zones proposed by Russia were a chance for rebels to "reconcile" with Damascus, but he stressed he would defend the zones and to crush, with the support of Iran and Hezbollah, those who try to breach them.
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