Assad Says There is No Civil War

President Bashar al-Assad once again showed his plain lack of connection with reality, on Friday.

During an interview, aired by Russia Today television, he stated that there is no Syrian Civil War.

Assad then said that the conflict is between him and a good portion of the world, but definitely not the Syrian people.

"The problem is not between me and the people. I do not have a problem with the people because the United States is against me and the West is against me and many other Arab countries, including Turkey, which is not Arab of course, is against me. If the Syrian people are against me, how can I be here?"

He also rejected suggestions that he find a safe haven in another country, to end the conflict, saying he would "live and die in Syria".

Syria's nearly twenty month long conflict has led to the deaths of over thirty-seven thousand people.

Rebel forces continue to slowly gain ground, throughout the country.

Meanwhile, reports out of Turkey said that over the last forty-eight hours, nearly ten thousand people have fled over the border, from Syria.

That number includes a group of twenty-seven Syrian military officers, including two generals and eleven colonels, who defected together.

Estimates place the total number of refugees, in Turkey, at over one hundred and twenty thousand people.

Refugees have escaped Syria, to every neighboring country, except Israel, that they could.