Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has said opposition fighters will not be victorious in their fight against his government, but that the "door to dialogue" remains open.<br /><br />Assad's comments to Egyptian weekly magazine al-Ahram al-Araby will be published on Friday.<br /><br />"The armed groups exercise terrorism against the state. They are not popular within society ... they will not be victorious in the end", Assad is quoted as saying.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.
