The war in Syria – the rebels are closing in on Damascus – World

Bashar al-Assad's regime could fall overnight.

In Syria, on Saturday, December 7, rebels began a battle with government forces for control of the key city of Homs. Rebels are inexorably closing in on the capital, Damascus, threatening to topple the totalitarian regime of Bashar al-Assad overnight after 24 years in power.

Reuters writes about this with reference to sources among local residents, rebels and the military.

“Since the rebels captured Aleppo a week ago, the government's defenses have been collapsing at breakneck speed, with the rebels capturing a number of major cities and rising insurgencies in places where it seemed long ago. The dual threat to strategically important Homs and the capital Damascus is now existential. a threat the decades of Assad's rule in Syria and the influence there of his main regional patron Iran, which so far…