Is it already time to sit at the table with Syria's al-Assad?

Two interesting developments occurred in our neighbor Syria on the day our National Football Team beat Croatia and rose to third place in their group in the World Championship play-offs. 

The national football team of Syria, which has fallen into pieces in its sixth year of civil war, fell 2-2 with Iran and won the right to participate in the eliminations for the World Championship play-offs.

This victory was celebrated with joyful demonstrations on the streets of Damascus.
These celebrations can also be regarded as the first photographs marking the end of the civil war in Syria.

Yes, a World Champion team came out of the ruins of war.

On the same day, troops under Syria's Bashar al-Assad's command took back a region that had been controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for three years.

One day later, the United Nations stated the troops of Assad used nerve gas in Idlib.

The U.N. also stated that until today, 33 different kinds of chemical weapons were used in the civil war in Syria and seven of them were used by the Assad regime between March and July.

This means that in the civil war, there are also those who use chemical weapons among the opponent groups against Assad. Only, this statement alone already shows the size of the human tragedy.

The war in Syria is almost coming to its end.
Aside from us, the whole world has understood this reality very well.
The best solution with regard to world peace is if the Assad regime takes back control over the country again.

This historical tragedy showed everyone that every region the regime could not control was seized by ISIL or Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra.

This is a mindset that cuts heads, burns people alive...

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