Assad hopeful cease fire lets Syria resume normal peacetime genocide operations

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he hopes the most recent cease fire in the five-year civil war will allow his army to get back to "normal peacetime genocide" operations.

The conflict has involved a multitude of actors, making it difficult for government forces to “cull” any one group into “extinction," he said.

“Back in the old day…