SYRIAN CEASEFIRE UPDATE: Syria military says it retook hospital, refugee camp in Aleppo.

The military said its forces captured the Kindi hospital and were strengthening their positions in the Handarat refugee camp, the Associated Press reported.

The state-run SANA news agency said that government soldiers retook buildings in Aleppo including Aleppo Club, the electricity department and a garage.

Doctors without Borders called on the Syrian government and its allies to “stop indiscriminate bombing in Aleppo.”

Awful as the Syrian assault is, it seems to be a more effective method of ending a war than President Obama’s weak attempts to talk Assad out of power.

Aleppo is the rebels’ last major stronghold, and the Turks are helping Damascus by clearing the north of Syria of ISIS and Kurdish forces. Assuming the dust ever settles, Russia and Iran will have strengthened their hand across the Levant, and the U.S. will have shown that we’re incapable of finding new friends in the Middle East (among the rebels) or supporting the friends we already have (the Kurds).

But Obama will still have his Nobel Peace Participation Trophy.