Syria: Assad Vows To Stamp Out 'Terror'

Syria's President Bashar al Assad has said that the country's crisis will only be solved by stamping out "terror", referring to the rebels fighting his regime.

In a speech on Syrian state television, Mr Assad also dismissed the political opposition to his regime as a "failure" that could play no role in solving the country's civil war.

"No solution can be reached with terror except by striking it with an iron fist," Mr Assad said.

"I don't think that any sane human being would think that terrorism can be dealt with via politics," he added.

"There may be a role for politics in dealing with terrorism pre-emptively," said Mr Assad, adding that as soon as "terrorism" has arisen, it can only be struck out.

Assad: Syria's economic woes 'are linked to the security situation'

In March 2011 a widespread protest movement calling for political change in Syria broke out.

In response, the regime unleashed a crackdown against dissent, while systematically labelling dissidents and rebels as "terrorists" and refusing to recognise the existence of a popular revolt.

The movement later morphed into an increasingly radical insurgency and more than 100,000 people have since been killed, the UN says.

The war has also forced millions to flee their homes, while plunging Syria into an unprecedented economic crisis.

Destruction in the war-torn Syrian city of Homs

In his latest speech, Mr Assad also said Syria's economic woes "are linked to the security situation, and they can only be solved by striking terror".

Mr Assad's speech comes a week after the army, backed by pro-regime paramilitary troops and Lebanon's Shiite Hizbollah movement, reclaimed a strategic district of the central city of Homs, after a suffocating siege on rebels that lasted more than a year.

"In this kind of fight, we as Syrians either win together or lose together," he said.

Mr Assad also said that the army, untrained for guerrilla warfare, "has achieved the impossible".

"There is only one kind of war that is bigger than guerrilla warfare, and that is a people's war, one that is fought by the army alongside the citizens," he said, adding that "the hand of God is with those who stand together".

In an Army Day message carried by state media on August 1, Mr Assad said he was "sure of victory" in the bloody conflict.

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