Syria Crisis: Live Updates

The Guardian

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continued border skirmishes with Turkey are stoking fears that Syria is deliberately trying to "internationalise" the civil war as a means of ensuring its survival, writes Simon Tisdall.

President Bashar al-Assad is effectively raising the price that hostile neighbouring countries and the major powers must pay for his overthrow, by actively fuelling the region-wide conflagration that UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says could be sparked by unchecked violence inside Syria ...

By constantly raising the stakes for all concerned, Assad hopes he can somehow cling to power – or take everyone down with him......"