Syria Update: The Fall of al-Qusayr
Jun 6, 2013 - Anonymous (not verified)![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/mapBlankMay_1.png?itok=S8HTeJR8)
With the help of thousands of fighters from Hezbollah, Iran, and Iraq, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has achieved one of his most important military victories in the past two years by forcing the withdrawal of opposition forces from the town of al-Qusayr. Al-Qusayr now also cuts off access to cross-border weapons supplies to the rebels from Lebanon and provides an important staging ground for future efforts by the regime to retake the north and east.