Turkey Sets Up Secret Base to Aid Syrian Rebels. Assad Runs Out of Money! FSA Repels Assad Forces in Aleppo!

Aleppo | The Sky Is Filled With Smoke From All The Shelling

United States officials said Friday that President Bashar al-Assad's regime is running out of cash.

Sources at the US Treasury and the State Department told CBS News that Syria is having problems finding a source to print its currency.

They estimate Assad has spent about half of Syria's sovereign wealth fund, which two years ago was estimated at some $5 billion, CBS wrote.

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Picture of the artillery seized by FSA in Al Bab (Aleppo countryside).

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Report: Syria FM arrives in Iran as fighting continues in Aleppo

Syrian FM to meet with Iranian top brass, as Syrian opposition leader warn of impending massacre in Aleppo.

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