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Syria's Assad: "Significant" Chance I'll Seek New Term
(AFP) Sammy Ketz - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told AFP on Sunday there is a "significant" chance he will seek a new term this year, and dismissed the prospect of an opposition premier. Speaking at the presidential palace in Damascus, days before the beginning of the Geneva II peace talks, Assad said he expected his country's bloody conflict to drag on, calling it a "fight against terrorism." He dismissed the opposition as having been "created" by foreign backers. And he described the possibility of appointing key opposition figures to the post of prime minister as nothing more than "a good joke."