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, leader of the Islamist Hezbollah militia group, said the rebels could not win in Syria.
"The situation in Syria is getting more complicated (but) anyone who thinks the armed opposition can settle the situation on the ground is very, very, very mistaken."
Syrian rebels accuse Hezbollah, a Shi'ite Moslem group, of sending fighters to neighboring Syria to help Assad overcome the largely Sunni Moslem revolt. Hezbollah denies these accusations.
Assad's and Hezbollah's main ally in region, Iran's diminutive President
Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad, cancelled a visit to Syria's estranged neighbor Turkey a day after his military chief said the deployment of NATO
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missile defenses along its border with Syria could lead to a "world war", Turkey's state-run Anatolian news agency said.