NEW YORK TIMES: Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s top envoy for the Middle East, said on Thursday that President Bashar al-Assad’s government was losing control of Syria and might be defeated by rebel forces…
Only in recent days has Russia’s resolve seemed to shift, while Mr. Assad’s foes, grouped in a newly minted and still uncertain coalition, have garnered ever broader international support as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people.
“We must look squarely at the facts, and the trend now suggests that the regime and the government in Syria are losing more and more control and more and more territory,” Mr. Bogdanov said in remarks to Russia’s Public Chamber, a Kremlin advisory group, according to the Interfax news service.
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