Members of the Syrian opposition are correct in describing Alawite army general Ali Habib Mahmoud's "defection" to Turkey over the past few days as a "blow to the morale" of the Assad regime. He is the most prominent military official to leave Syria since the July 2012 departure of Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass, who came from a prominent family and was at one point close to Bashar al-Assad.

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Notizie e analisi come questa sono le prove che se la comunità internazionale si mostrasse davvero compatta nell'isolare il regime di Bashar el Assad si allontanerebbe l'ipotesi di un intervento militare unilaterale. Perché basterebbe poco per…