After the fall of Qusayr, the media was claiming that Assad was winning. I have been on this blog calling that out as propaganda. While Assad with the help of Hezbollah helped take some isolated rebel pockets in Homs, province, the conflict was mostly a stalemate. However, the past few weeks, the rebels are now gaining the upper hand in parts of Syria. After a year of stalemate in the Eastern City of DeirEzzor, al-Nusra Front with the help of al-Qaeda foreign fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have broken through Government defenses. The Baath Party HQ has fallen to al-Nusra.
This conflict is not ending anytime soon.
Here is an interesting read about the tensions between al-Nusra Front and ISIS.
Tensions between al-Qaeda’s two branches fighting in Syria – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Nusra Front – are reaching a breaking point, despite efforts to resolve the dispute from the organization’s international leadership.
Despite their best attempts to keep the ongoing dispute between ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his Nusra counterpart, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, contained at the leadership level, al-Qaeda’s internal war in Syria is increasingly becoming public.
But did not Obama said al-Qaeda is on the run?
Tags: al Nusra Front, Baath Party, Syrian War
