Analysts: Insurgents Make Gains in Syria

Iran is increasingly focusing its military efforts in the Mideast on Iraq and the loser appears to be Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  For the past few weeks his forces have been losing ground to the country’s fractious rebels, who despite being engulfed by infighting, have managed to seize territory in the war-torn country’s north and south, say analysts. Earlier this year Assad’s forces were menacing the rebels in districts they hold in the northern Syrian town of Aleppo and...

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