17 April 2014 — The Daily Telegraph

[It may not be front page news but when a avowedly right-wing newspaper like the Telegraph runs a piece like this, and by a relatively high profile journalist, Peter Oborne, you know that things on the ground for the Western-backed ‘rebels’ can’t be going too well. WB.]

Syria: As the bombs fall, the people of Damascus rally round Bashar al-Assad By Peter Oborne

The West may oppose Assad’s regime, but on the streets of the capital the people fear a greater evil