Free Syrian Army fighters prepare for battle after receiving a request for assistance from a nearby town in Idlib province, Syria. | Austin Tice/MCT
Weeks Spent With Syrian Rebels Reveal A force Of Sunni Muslim Civilians -- McClathcy News
KHAN SHEIKHOUN, Syria — They are doctors, they are teachers. They are students and the unemployed. They are farmers and pharmacists.
The armed rebellion that has plunged Syria into what one U.N. official has called a civil war has been cast by the Syrian government as led by Islamic extremists, and the lack of a clear understanding of who the rebels are has been cited by Western governments as one reason not to arm them.
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My Comment: The numbers favor the rebels .... and in a war of attrition .... the ones with the numbers will eventually win. Unfortunately .... in Syria .... it is going to take a considerable amount of fighting and killing before the hold of the Assad family and their Allawite supporters are broken.