Thanks for the pretense, punks. You just went ahead and made our day. It's time to throw out Baby Assad with the Ba'athwater.
It is the responsibility of the host government to protect the embassies within their country. The Syrian military surrounding our embassy is probably for that purpose.....to stand against anyone attacking our people.
That is a possible explanation of this report. Some group is attacking the embassy and the Syrian army is fulfilling their obligation.