Syrian Military Threatens to Retake South, Spiegel Says
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military has stabilized and the Hezbollah-supported regime could retake the country’s south by the year’s end, according to German intelligence reports obtained by Der Spiegel magazine.
The Syrian military has re-established its weapons channels and refueling capacity for tanks and aircraft, giving it the ability to attack opposition units, Spiegel cited reports by Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, as saying. That’s a turnaround from last year, when the BND had forecast the regime’s downfall in early 2013, Spiegel said.