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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Assad regime could still fall, says US defense chief
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDespite surviving more than four years of civil war, the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad might still fall, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says.
“We would like to see a transition in which Assad disappears from the scene,” Carter testifies before the House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee.
“That is possible because his forces are much weakened,”Carter adds.
Government forces are more and more isolated in and around Damascus and in the Alawite-majority region of the northwest of the country, Carter says.
“The best way for the Syrian people for this to go would be for him to remove himself from the scene,” Carter says.
— AFP
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