Syrian president Bashar al-Assad says civil war is turning in regime's favour

Leader says recent routing of opposition near Lebanese border is a decisive moment in the three-year conflict President Bashar al-Assad has said that the country's three-year civil war is turning in the government's favour, state news agency SANA reported. "This is a turning point in the crisis, both militarily in terms of the army's achievements in the war against terror, and socially in terms