Al-Sharaa forecasts chaos in Syria

Syrian vice-president Al-Sharaa said on Sunday that his regime and the
rebels are both going down a losing path after 21 months of civil war,
a rare admission by a top government official that President Bashar
Assad’s victory is unlikely, the Washington Post reports citing the
AP.

In an interview to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, Al-Sharaa said that
neither the rebels nor the Assad regime can “decide the battle
militarily.” The media have regarded it as an attempt to show that the
rebels are not the solution to the Syria conflict, and their victory
might bring chaos to the country. Balancing that, Al-Sharaa stressed
that the Assad regime “cannot achieve change.”