Is Syria's Army Now Winning The Civil War?

They May Be Fighting For Syria, Not Assad. They May Also Be Winning: Robert Fisk Reports From Inside Syria -- Robert Fisk, The Independent

Death stalks the Syrian regime just as it does the rebels. But on the front line of the war, the regime’s army is in no mood to surrender – and claims it doesn’t need chemical weapons

Clouds hang oppressively low over the Syrian army’s front-line mountain-top in the far north of Syria.

Rain has only just replaced snow, turning this heavily protected fortress into a swamp of mud and stagnant ponds where soldiers man their lookout posts with the wind in their faces, their elderly T-55 tanks – the old Warsaw Pact battlehorses of the 1950s – dripping under the showers, their tracks in the mud, used now only as artillery pieces. They are “rubbish tanks” – debeba khurda – I say to Colonel Mohamed, commander of the Syrian army’s Special Forces unit across this bleak landscape, and he grins at me. “We use them for static defence,” he says frankly. ‘They do not move.’”

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My Comment: I am not a fan of Robert Fisk ..... but sometimes some of his posts deserve to be read. This is one of them. The above Al Jazeera video is also a must see.