... While, on the strength of reports by high-ranking military deserters,
they had heretofore predicted the rapid enfeeblement of Bashar
al-Assad, today they announced his victory before the end of the year.
... The German foreign intelligence agency
(Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) has drastically revised its assessment of
the situation in Syria, reveals Spiegel Online [1] ... The BND believes that the Syrian Arab Army has succeeded in securing its supply lines and in cutting those of the "insurgents" (largely
foreign jihadists, backed by NATO and the GCC). The retrieval of
al-Qusayir presages that of the entire district of Homs and the collapse
of the partition plans, with the possible exception of a Kurdish area.
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