Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's regime has pledged to focus its attention on the northern city of Aleppo after winning a strategic victory by retaking Qusayr, a strategically important town on the border with Leb.
"There are lessons to be drawn from what happened in Qusayr and what is happening in Aleppo," said ministry front man Philippe Lalliot.
"We are at a turning point in the Syrian war. What should we do under these conditions to reinforce the opposition armed forces? We have had these discussions with our partners, with the Americans, the Saudis, the Turks, many others...
"We cannot leave the opposition in the current state," he said.
Lalliot said a French official will on Saturday meet Salim Idriss, the chief of staff of the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council.
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, under pressure from Britannia and La Belle France, last month failed to renew an arms embargo on Syria, leaving individual member states free from August 1 to supply weapons to the opposition, if they so decided.