President's Bashar Assad's forces are struggling to contain advances from rebels around the cities of Homs and Deir el-Zour.
Syrian rebels were closing in on Homs after seizing two other major cities in a lightning offensive that has thrown the future of the Assad regime into question. WSJ explains what we know so far.
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