The armed opposition in Syria is led by the underequipped Free Syrian Army. Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesBearing Witness In Syria: A War Reporter’s Last Days -- New York Times
It was damp and cold as Anthony Shadid and I crossed in darkness over the barbed-wire fence that separated Turkey from Syria last month. We were also crossing from peace into war, into the bloodiest conflict of the Arab Spring, exploding just up the rocky and sparsely wooded mountain we had to climb once inside.
The smugglers waiting for us had horses, though we learned they were not for us. They were to carry ammunition and supplies to the Free Syrian Army. That is the armed opposition group, made up largely of defectors from President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal army, we had come to interview, photograph and try to understand.
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My Comment: Another sobering assessment of what is happening on the ground in Syria. In short .... we are now entering a stalemate and a slow war of attrition.
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