Sunday 26 July 2015

Embattled Syria president admits Army lacks manpower to hold on to some territory.

     Syria president Bashar Assad vowed to defeated the opposition fighters and militants groups fighting his army. Mr Assad said Syrian army are tired of fighting due to long running war. He said his army lack man power but their is no defeat in Syria army dictionary. He said "we have everything we need but their is no man power". He stressed further to say that, sometimes, his army are forced to withdraw from some territory in other to be able to hold the important territory. His speech comes 24 hours after he grant an amnesty for army deserters. The speech which was televised live on state television, saying "It was necessary to specify critical areas for our armed forces to hang on to. Concern for our soldiers forced us to let go of some area". To day speech was first in a year. Syrian civil started when protesters took to the street, demanding for president Assad resignation. The government responded in  harsh manner which forcesd some of the citizens to carry arms to fight the government. Later, foreign fighters came in to help the local oppositions fighting. Since then, different terrorist group has taken the advantages of the long running civil war to seized territory from government and placed their control on it.

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