Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (c.) speaks to soldiers during a tour in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs in this photo released by Syria's news agency SANA on Tuesday. SANA/Reuters
Amid Uprising, Syria Upgrades Its Military -- UPI
Syria leaders have been upgrading military capabilities against Israel and foreign intervention to aid rebels who have been fighting there for more than a year.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 23 (UPI) -- While Syria's autocratic regime has been waging a brutal crackdown against a 13-month uprising to topple President Bashar al-Assad, the regime has been steadily upgrading its military capabilities against Israel and foreign intervention to aid the rebels.
Russia has been one of Damascus' key diplomatic allies in the international furor over the bloodbath in Syria in which by United Nations count more than 9,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed.
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My Comment: Both Russia and Syria are going for broke in this conflict .... a conflict that will now surely be prolonged and more bloodier with these additional arm shipments.
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