In deep contrast to 2011, 'most governments in the region don't want Assad to go'

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed to use force to eliminate "terrorism" during a phone call with an official from the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the civil war heading into its 14th year, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza welcomes Dr. H. A. Hellyer, Scholar in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies.