Syria’s Crisis: No Side Looks Set To Win Soon -- The Economist
A bloody stalemate, for now.
IN A war which neither side is decisively winning, small victories are much vaunted. The rebels seeking to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad have been cheered by a rash of bombings of security headquarters in Damascus, the capital, and Aleppo, the second city, including on October 9th a building that houses the air-force intelligence centre in the capital. Bolstered by their success at taking an increasing number of border crossings with Turkey, the rebels have made small but steady advances on the ground, especially in the north-west. Most recently they have forced the regime to abandon a string of checkpoints in and around Marat Numan, a town in Idleb province that straddles the main Damascus-Aleppo road. Rebels in this area control swathes of land up to the border with Turkey.
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Update: Is the Glass Half Full for Syria’s Assad? -- Tony Karon, Time
My Comment: The war is now intensifying across the country .... with most military analysts now seeing weaknesses in the Syrian military. What's my take (prediction) on the Syrian civil war .... continuing casualty numbers like this tells me that a breaking point will inevitably be reached .... but this civil war will probably continue to burn until the end of next year, ending up with Syria fractured in the same sectarian manner that Lebanon is today.
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