Fighting erupts in Syria amid Russian airstrikes, activists say

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6. FSA is one of the groups that we theoretically supported.

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Russia (Lavrov) said they are OK and can join the political process to transition Assad out.

I have seen some back and forth on it, but it all seems like talk still AFAIK.

"Moderate" is like "Terrorist", it does not denote anything about them, it tells you we support them. If we don't support them they are called something else. There is no other meaning the way the government uses it, because the parties it has been attached to are hardly ever moderate, generally they are rebels and revolutionairies, who are by definition not moderate.

The Baathist regime is the only participant in Syria that I know of that treats women reasonably well, or did, and the Kurds do. I am hoping the Baathists and the Kurds will work things out when this is over, but who knows?

The answer is no, most of the moderate opposition is fundamentalist now, and they won't be nice to women and gays, nor will ISIL, which is just a large armed gang for all practical purposes, thriving in the vacuum between Iraq & Syria.

The Syrian Kurds are the only groups I am aware of there that might treat gays right, they are pretty progressive politically.