Syria rebels face heavy shelling
Government forces deploy helicopter gunships in Damascus, witnesses say.
Rami Khoury, a journalist and Middle East analyst in Beirut, said rebel forces have become more co-ordinated and better equipped in the last two months and predicted that their recent gains mark "the beginning of the end" for the regime.
"Clearly this is a regime that is being cornered and encircled," he told Al Jazeera. "While the regime has a lot of power which it uses to pound the rebels and attack them, politically, the regime is being ...
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