The biggest effect of Wednesday's bombings near Army Staff Headquarters and the invasion of the building by insurgents is psychological: "How can President Assad and those who have held power for decades claim to protect their people when they cannot even protect themselves?"
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 14:12 | James Miller in EA Middle East and Turkey, Journalism and Media, Middle East and Iran Insurgents use a BMP armoured vehicle to attack regime tanks in Jabal Zawiyah in Idlib Province
This is a stalemate, but it is a corrosive one, one that constantly eats at the strength of the Assad regime, while the humanitarian crisis and threat to infrastructure grows with every exploding barrel bomb and tank shell. The "massacres" and the escalating death toll bear out the claims made by the opposition that the regime does not believe that it is winning this fight.
