Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday vowed to use force to eliminate “terrorism,” state news agency SANA reported, during a phone call with an official from the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Assad said “terrorism only understands the language of force, and that is the language which we will break it and eliminate it with, whoever its supporters and sponsors are,” SANA reported, as a war monitor said second city Aleppo was no longer under government control.Read more:Turkish-backed Syrian opposition group blocked Kurdish plan, Turkish security sources sayIran says to ‘firmly support’ Syrian regime after opposition attacksRussian, Syrian jets intensify bombing of Syria’s opposition-held northwest