Syria's Assad says battles in Eastern Ghouta to continue

Syrian soldiers patrol in the recently liberated Nashabiyeh town in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region, eastern countryside of Damascus, capital of Syria, on March 4, 2018. Syria's national TV said Sunday that the rebels in the capital Damascus' Eastern Ghouta area are "collapsing" as a result of the Syrian military offensive in that area. (Xinhua/Ammar Safarjalani)