In the latest fighting in Damascus, government forces fired heavy machine guns and mortars in battles with rebels in a number of neighborhoods in the capital, the Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
(CBS/AP) BEIRUT – Bashar Assad attended the swearing-in of his new defense minister Thursday, according to footage shown on Syrian state TV, the first sign of the president since an audacious rebel attack the day before struck at the heart of his regime and killed three senior officials. Government forces struck back against rebels with attack helicopters and shelling in a fifth straight day of clashes in Damascus. The inability of the military to control the clashes in the capital against lightly armed rebel forces and the deadly bombing of a high-level security meeting a day earlier made Assad’s hold on power look increasingly tenuous. Speculation is rampant as to Assad’s whereabouts, CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward reported on “CBS This Morning” Thursday. Some opposition members said left Damascus for the heartland of his Alawite tribe in the coastal city of Latakia, Ward reports. That claim seems unlikely, however, given that Assad’s security apparatus is in Damascus and a move to Latakia would appear as the president conceding his capital and 강원 랜드 바카라 이기는 법 backing away from the fight. One thing is certain, Assad finds himself in an uncomfortable position, Ward reports. He no longer knows who he can trust, and the rebel Free Syrian Army is touting the deadly bomb attack as a major triumph, even calling it the beginning of the end for the Assad...
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