Pro-government Syrian forces continue to make headway in that country as fierce fighting ends in the strategic border town of Qusair with Assad's troops and Hezbollah re-taking the city.

The fighting there had lasted for two weeks with heavy bombardments, airstrikes and ground assaults. The end came after Hezbollah spearheaded a ground assault that opened the way for Syrian tanks.

As fighting drew to a close in Qusair, Hezbollah troops were redirected to the strategic city of Aleppo. Increased fighting is expected there as government troops work to retake that city as well. Fighting around Damascus, while already intense, is expected to ramp up as well.

Fighting also broke out at the Golan crossing point between Syria and Israel after Syrian opposition forces briefly took control of the U.N. manned station. The rarely-used crossing point between the two countries was quickly re-taken within hours of opposition forces capturing it. The use of tanks in that de-militarized area violates cease-fire agreements between Israel and Syria, but Israel has yet to react to the infraction. All is now quiet in that border area.

U.N. Peacekeeping forces, 1,000-strong, pulled back from the crossing as fighting broke out. In a statement, the Austrian government announced the pullback. Austria makes up fully a third of the peacekeeping observer force there. They would announce later that their troops will be pulled from the region completely. Croatia pulled its contingent out of the area in March.

Syrian forces have made significant headway in their fight against the rebels since Hezbollah announced that they would actively support the pro-government forces last week. Their announcement has caused spill-over of the conflict into Lebanon, over-night, 11 rockets were fired by rebel forces in Syria across the border into the town of Baalbek, which is a Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold.

The United States, on Wednesday called on Iranian and Lebanese fighters to withdraw from Syria. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawari has called on all Sunni-Muslims everywhere to move into Syria and take up arms against Assad’s government with the intent of setting up an Islamic state.

Much to the embarrassment of the International community, no diplomatic solution to the conflict has been seriously proposed. Talks between Russia and the United States once thought to begin in June have been postponed until at least July with no concrete date set.

What used to be an internal conflict within Syria has slowly but surely expanded into a widespread regional sectarian conflict and has now became a much more difficult fire to put out.