The Syrian army weakened the rebels with the conquest of a key district of Homs

Joint forces of Bashar Assad and the Lebanese Shiite militiaHezbollah have managed to resume Monday Jalidiyeh district in Homs , which was so far the rebels' main stronghold in the city. For over a year, this district had been under the control of the insurgents and from here you were leading several regional operations against pro-government troops . In 2012, they were rather offensive and in recent months, absolutely all-fallback. The state news agency SANA has brought forward the news through its usual format and aseptic brief statement: "The army has restored security and stability along the streets of Jalidiyeh". The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group near-revolution-has rejected in part the accuracy of this information. Abu Rami, an activist consulted Afp agency recognizes the notable progress of the Syrian forces, which would be controlled and 90% of the town - but insists there are still skirmishes on the streets of the department. "The escape [from the rebels] is the result of the use of powerful artillery bombardment from the air. [...] Jalidiyed have fallen, but not Homs. 've lost this assault, but not the war , "said Rami.According to his testimony, the neighborhoods of the old city of Homs would be still in the hands of the Free Syrian Army (SLA) and the scheme has now put the emphasis on the submission of Bab Hud. Since last night, state television was offering triumphalist tone images-and liberating - on account of the destruction that was accumulating in the streets of the district. Could check holes in the structures, staircases and windows burst, potholes in the ground, and so on. All this live and the passage of Bashar Assad troops, wielding two-star flag in hand. Possibly the most representative of all of these images has been the occupation of the mosque of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid , architectural history with nine domes and two minarets, which has been partially destroyed. The temple of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid was a symbol of the guerrillas.

This important victory over the 'Rebel Heart' was made ​​just a month after the Damascus-Beirut axis to conquer conjurase Homs-third largest city in Syria and formerly known as the capital of the revolution. Thunderbolt confirming the upward trend in this conflict regime, when only a year ago looked cornered on several fronts in the north and southwest. The sparse and poorly pertrechadas weapons you have the rebels by the fragmented opposition on the ground, basically between secularists and Islamists, has managed to make things easier Syrian forces and today, more than ever, seem to be getting the momentary advantage this war.

The province of Homs is the largest in the country and runs from the Lebanese border in the west to the borders of Iraq and Jordan in the east. The main value of Homs is its strategic locationon the map, place that also tend to spend much of the supply routes both. Connect Damascus with northern and western coastal provinces, predominantly Alawite population and loyal-on paper-to Bashar Assad. Already more than 100,000 victims in this war confirmed that began in March 2011.