Den israeliska tidningen Vala rapporterar att den israeliska säkerhetstjänsten är chockade över att Assadregimen motstått två år av terrorist och sabotageaktioner mot landet och arbetar på hur de skall kunna mörda honom, skriver Fars News. Tidigare har den turkiska och franska säkerhetstjänstegjort försök att mörda honom. Nu när man inte klarar av att störta den syriska regimen har det blivit allt viktigare att på olika sätt försöka likvidera honom.

Horrific video footage of a Syrian rebel commander eating the heart or lung of a dead government fighter has aroused furious international controversy, fuelling an already heated debate over western support for the armed uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The grisly film had been circulating for several days, attracting extensive comment on social media networks such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. But in the face of an often vicious propaganda war between the government and rebels, early doubts about the film's authenticity faded when the perpetrator, named as Khaled al-Hamad, admitted that he had mutilated the corpse of an unnamed soldier as an act of revenge.

"We opened his cell phone and I found a clip of a woman and her two daughters fully naked and he [the dead soldier] was humiliating them, and sticking a stick here and there," Hamad told the Time news website.

Human Rights Watch (HRW), an independent monitor, said: "The figure in the video cuts the heart and liver out of the body and uses sectarian language to insult Alawites [Assad's minority sect]. At the end of the video [the man] is filmed putting the corpse's heart into his mouth, as if he is taking a bite out of it."

Denna och många fler frågor kommer allt fler människor i Syrien att ställa, skriver Semih Idiz i Hurriyet Daily News. Varför dras Turkiet in i den 1400 hundra år gamla sekteriska konflikt mellan sunni och shiamuslimer, en konflikt som kan bli djup och långvarig.