As al-Assad tightens grip on Syria's south, Jordan rethinks rebel support
JABER AS-SARHAN, Jordan - Standing on the edge of this once busy border crossing, you can glimpse the black, white and red of the Syrian flag across the no man's land linking Jordan to Syria. Off to one side, a group of soldiers lounges around an entrenched tank, as army trucks kick up dust on a dirt track hugging the border.
It's a novel sight: For more than three years, it was the opposition's tricolor flag that flew over the arched entrance to Syria, and it was the rebels who patrolled the wheat-covered fields nearby.
But that was before a government blitz on the southern Syrian province of Dara this month
