Dictatorship Refuses to Step Down: Violence has escalated as Syria civil war drags on into another year of Syrian v Syrian violence: Syria holding few areas

Rebels storm key Syrian army post, airbase: watchdog

AFP

Rebels pushed to consolidate gains in northwestern Syria on Saturday, storming a key army post and fighting for control of an airbase, a watchdog said. President Bashar al-Assad’s forces meanwhile recaptured a neighbourhood of the central city of Homs that had been held by rebels for most of the year…