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AFP – Moscow acknowledged on Thursday that longtime ally Damascus might lose its battle with Arab- and Western-backed rebels, a view shared by NATO’s head who said President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is close to collapsing. The comments came just a day after Syria’s interior minister was lightly wounded.