"In many places we see former regime members back in power, and they are coordinating the attacks with other regime loyalists."

Eventually, regime loyalists regrouped and went on an offensive.

So we would have wound up with, at best, a nearly exclusively Sunni force of regime loyalists, unhoused and ill equipped.

"The house was used as an observation post by former regime loyalists," he said.

Also, the Syrian air force, where this guy says he served, is filled with regime loyalists from trusted Alawite clans.

Help was needed because regime loyalists posed a threat from neighbouring countries, he said.

Certainly, United States forces need to press their attacks against regime loyalists and foreign fighters.

The perennial conflict remained: the appointment of regime loyalists in opposition to choices for parish and diocesan posts.

These basic ingredients are likely to be hidden at locations known only to a very select group of leading scientists and top regime loyalists.

The remaining hard-core regime loyalists were eliminated or ineffective.