Syrian rebels have launched a series of attacks on regime-held air bases across the country, the rebels said April 28, United Press International reported.
Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar al Assad, backed by pro-regime militias and Hezbollah militants, made new advances on Al-Qusayr on April 21, AFP reported, citing Lebanon's National News Agency.
The Free Syrian Army, as well as some other rebel factions, refuse to recognize new opposition Prime Minister Ghassan Hitto because the National Coalition did not reach a consensus on his election, rebel officials said March 24, AFP reported.
Syrian rebels have seized a strip of land roughly 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) long that stretches from the Jordanian border to the Golan Heights and includes the Al-Rai military checkpoint, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said March 24, AFP reported.
Israel destroyed a Syrian machine gun nest in the Golan Heights that had fired at Israeli patrols twice within the last 24 hours, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, Reuters reported March 24.
Although there were popular uprisings and widespread calls for change throughout the region during the Arab Spring, it did not lead to regime change. Even in the exceptional case of Libya, where the regime collapsed, a new order remains elusive. The mass unrest that broke out in 2011 has destabilized the region and plunged it into a lengthy period of uncertainty.
