A man holds the body of a dead child among bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region near Damascus August 21, 2013. Photo by Reuters
Assad Fights On Thanks To Russia, Iran And Hezbollah -- Haaretz
Israel, which a week ago justly accused Iran of abetting Assad’s massacre of Sunni Muslims, is keeping silent about Russia’s involvement in Syria.
As President Bashar Assad’s forces have survived into the fourth year of Syria’s civil war, the world media is noting another accomplishment of a regime that Western intelligence agencies once said should be a thing of the past. In the town of Yabroud near Damascus and the Lebanese border, the Syrian army and Hezbollah are methodically making progress in the struggle against the rebels.
This progress combines with other key achievements: the taking of the city of Qusair last summer and the battles in the Qalamoun Mountains in recent months. If Yabroud is completely overrun, the rebels’ last bastion in the area will be gone, improving the regime’s ability to protect its supply lines, which curve from northern Syria toward Damascus.
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My Comment: Bottom line .... the civil war shows no signs of ending soon.
3 comments:
Your right, in fact it is getting hotter.
Don't be surprised come Summer time that it becomes scorching.
With the retaliatory strikes against Syrian Army positions yesterday the tit-for-tat is set to continue and only needs one incident to set it all on fire
With Russia giving diplomatic cover and Iran direct military aid the "conflict has come to the point of Assad probably can't lose in the conventional sense, but can't win either. Israel's moves and reactions are probably a truer indication of the contest's course. Unfortunately the Israeli's tend to keep things close to the vest.
The so-called "civil war" in Syria is really a foreign-supported insurgency not a civil war. It has bee prolonged for two years by foreign fighters provided by Gulf States and others, and by foreign financial and military support including from the U.S.
It isn't working -- the opposition jihadists are fighting each other and Syria is gaining ground.
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