Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
has cast doubt on the prospects of a proposed ceasefire in his country's grinding civil war.
He told a group in Damascus on Monday that "no one" was capable of bringing about the necessary circumstances for a planned truce to take effect later this week.
World powers agreed Friday in Munich, Germany, to seek a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria to begin in a week's time, although it would not apply to the battle against terrorist groups ISIS and al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
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But in his comments on the proposal, Assad seemed skeptical about whether a halt in the conflict was possible.