Another world exclusive by Nicholas Blanford: the Syrian Army has been decimated

"Alongside the exhausted and decimated Syrian army, the IRGC is employing its own forces as well as a patchwork of Shiite paramilitary militias drawn from Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to battle the mainly Sunni rebels across the country."  Would you hire this guy to serve as a correspondent for an elementary school newspaper? Honest?  (thanks Basim)