Syrian Rebels Capture Three Military Bases In A Week -- The Guardian
Attacks yield large number of weapons, which had been in short supply.
Syrian rebels' success in seizing three military bases in less than a week has underscored the growing difficulty faced by Damascus in securing its outposts and stopping a rebel encroachment that has claimed large swaths of the east and north of the country.
Attacks on the bases, one north-east of Aleppo, a second at Mayedin in the far east and a third near Damascus, yielded a large number of weapons, which had been in desperately short supply, especially in positions across Syria's second city.
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My Comment: The Syrian civil war is now a war of attrition .... a battle that the rebels will eventually win. But the pace of the war is going very slow, and I suspect that this winter will produce more causalties than in the previous 20 months of fighting combined.