"Leading article: Syria's pressure at home and abroad
Friday, 12 August 2011
Syria's recent Ramadan offensive, in which 300 protesters died, appears not to have deterred Syrian democrats, who are still taking to the streets in their hundreds of thousands. But it has severely affected the attitude of neighbouring states which until recently thought there was no obvious alternative to a cohesive Assad regime. Anger has grown among the largely Sunni Arab states at the scale of the attacks on their co-religionists by Assad's minority Alawite Shia henchmen."
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