Syrian Rebels Are Finished In Homs

Spanish Journalist Tells Of Life Inside Besieged Baba Amr, Escape -- CNN

(CNN) -- Spanish photographer Javier Espinosa painted a harrowing picture of life inside the shattered center of Syrian resistance in Homs in the days before a full-scale assault by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

Espinosa, who works for the Spanish daily El Mundo, was one of four journalists who escaped this week from Baba Amr, a neighborhood of about five square miles that was shelled for 26 consecutive days before Syrian forces began an assault.

"It's an enormous tragedy," Espinosa told Anderson Cooper during an interview that aired Thursday on CNN's "AC360."

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My Comment: This is a major defeat for the rebels in Syria, but I suspect that this has also strained the Syrian military to a point that it never expected to find itself in.