Does increasing division of rebel groups benefit the Assad regime?

RAY SUAREZ: If they're fighting each other, does that benefit the Assad regime? Most of the units fighting inside of Syria are Syrians increasingly, over time, as the moderate groups haven't really been sufficiently supported by the United States and other countries, those more radical groups and foreign fighters from the Arab Gulf, from Russia, Chechens, even Westerners have streamed to Syria. So they're coming into Syria and picking up weapons to fight the Assad regime and fighting alongside of Syrian forces. When you look at Syria, are - is the state of the war in some ways dependent on which neighboring country they're near when they're fighting, whether it's getting supplies in or who the combatants are?

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