Western analysts close to intelligence circles gave a grim assessment about Obama’s performance in the Syrian crisis

• Western analysts close to intelligence circles gave a grim assessment about Obama's performance in the Syrian crisis. Some went as far as to expect a dwindling status that would hit unprecedented bottom in the US political history. Many other media outlets described what happened as the demise of the American age.

• According to well-informed sources, 400 members of the Takfiri groups were killed in Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, when the Syrian army set a series of successful ambushes that engaged with them when they tried to storm Damascus through Adra region.

• One of the reasons Moscow did not threaten to be part of the war if Syria was attacked is that Russia knows how much effective the weapons it supplied Damascus with. According to Russian military sources, Syria would deal the aggressors a devastating blow, a thing which Moscow is very eager to see happening.