Urging Syrians News Today

Call it the optics and theyre important. president assad looking in control and on state tv and speaking to adoring crowd, remind theyre a large number of syrians support him especially among the upper class. despite the offers of negotiation, he has no intention of leaving and will win this civil war. in the past 20 months he has said the rebels are al-qaeda sympathizer and since they arent all jihadists were seeing a number of fighters from foreign countries and interested in turning syria int...

Assad gives a rare speech to supporter and what he says from the u.s. state department. urging syrians to defend their country against the rebels who started against his regime two years ago. its now a civil war. and 60,000 people estimated to have been killed since it began, saying in a statement. assads speech today is yet another attempt by the regime to cling to power and does nothing to advance the syrian peoples goal of a transition. leland vittert has more from the u.s. bureau. >> shannon...

Call it the optics and theyre important. president assad looking in control and on state tv and speaking to adoring crowd, remind theyre a large number of syrians support him especially among the upper class. despite the offers of negotiation, he has no intention of leaving and will win this civil war. in the past 20 months he has said the rebels are al-qaeda sympathizer and since they arent all jihadists were seeing a number of fighters from foreign countries and interested in turning syria int...

Assad gives a rare speech to supporter and what he says from the u.s. state department. urging syrians to defend their country against the rebels who started against his regime two years ago. its now a civil war. and 60,000 people estimated to have been killed since it began, saying in a statement. assads speech today is yet another attempt by the regime to cling to power and does nothing to advance the syrian peoples goal of a transition. leland vittert has more from the u.s. bureau. >> shannon...