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Announcing new financial sanctions on the assad regime for weapons proliferation. this after a deadly attack in the capital of damascus. syria's rebel commander say his forces were behind a homicide bombing that ripped through a high level meeting of cabinet ministers and senior security officials, killing the defense minister and president assad's brother-in-law in the harshest blow to the government's inner circle since the uprising began 16 months ago. defense secretary leon panetta says the u.s. is very concerned about the escalating violence in syria. >> this is a situation that is rapidl...

Policies, all sides, all sectors need to be directed at winning this war what we have seen and heard about is a real escalation in the past few days of a syrian military offensive against the armed opposition in this country. it's happening throughout the nation. the military is using a range of weaponry from big to small. even for the first time in the suburbs around where we are right now in the capital of damascus, heavy artillery. all of this has kept the u.n. observer mission grounded except for some humanitarian operations we went on on tuesday but here is a bit of a back and forth that ...

Armed forces after this incident. we are not a country which will remain silent and sit idle without anything in the face of an attack claim. inside syria is also rapidly spiraling deeper inside to chaos. rebels launch president bashar assad came before his cabinet and told it that the uprising in syria is, quote, a real situation of war. greg palkot with the news streaming live from inside damascus like all western journalists in the country. greg is there with permission of the syrian regime which is now monitoring his report. greg? just a short while ago bashar assad confirmed what we had b...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.

This, is the importance of helicopters. why is the united states now making such a big deal about helicopters. and it has to do with the fundamental strategy of the uprising in syria right now. i was speaking this morning to syrian activists and they say that the country is basically in a state of collapse. businesses aren't functioning, the roads aren't open. people aren't really going to school. except in a few pockets. so the country is collapsing from, on a day-to-day perspective. the strategy of the opposition is to light little fires, if you would, have pockets of resistance, scattered a...