Syria's Rebels Are Losing The Civil War

As Syria civil war enters fourth year, rebels are clearly losing. © Google

As Syria Civil War Enters Fourth Year, Rebels Are Clearly Losing -- L.A. Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad has survived for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the rebels' disarray and infighting.

HOMS, Syria — On the ragged fringes of the Old City, aid workers, clerics and government troops stood vigil, awaiting a U.N. convoy evacuating women, children and the aged from the besieged ancient quarter of a town known to many as ground zero in the Syrian civil war.

But the buses disgorged a very different class of passengers: scores of young men, haggard and sallow-faced, blankets draped over their shoulders and fear evident in their eyes. They shuffled uncertainly under the hostile gaze of Syrian troops and intelligence officers toward a makeshift processing center in a run-down banquet hall.

The men, who turned themselves in last month, were remnants of Homs' rebel defenders, once the spearhead of the insurgency, now bedraggled and half-starved. They were placing their fate in the hands of their most bitter foe, the forces of President Bashar Assad.

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My Comment: At this rate .... I estimate that the civil war will be over (more or less) by the end of next year.