As police fired tear gas and pointed pressurized water hoses at protesters marching towards Taksim Square in weekend anti-government protests, Syria’s regime was busy spinning Turkey’s predicament in its favour.
Pro-Assad forces have seized full control of the strategic town of Qusair near the Lebanese border
As the two sides argue about preconditions to attending the Geneva 2 negotiations, could the Syrian conlfict be about to spill over and engulf neighbouring Lebanon and Israel into war?
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has claimed that the Syrian army has won “major victories” against the rebels and holds the “balance of power” in an interview with a Lebanese television station.
The factious state of the rebels in Syria, means that the UK cannot be sure where its arms are heading or how they will be used in the conflict.