Insight: Battle for Damascus: frozen but bloody
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Rebel fighters in Damascus are disciplined, skilled and brave.Full story
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Rebel fighters in Damascus are disciplined, skilled and brave.Full story
(Note: This story was reported by a visiting journalist whose name has been withheld for security reasons) Full story
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - At a crowded market stall in Syria, a middle-aged couple, well dressed, shuffle over to press a folded note, furtively, into the hand of a foreign reporter. Full story
Free Syrian Army fighters carry their weapons while walking down a debris-filled street in the al-Ziyabiya area in Damascus on May 5.
Free Syrian Army members have a meal together in one of the streets of Deir el-Zor May 16, 2013. Picture taken May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi (SYRIA - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Iraqi mourners chant slogans against the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebel group and al-Qaida-affiliated Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra as they carry the coffin of Mohammed Aboud, a Shi'ite militia fighter who was killed in clashes with the Free Syrian Army, during a funeral in Basra, 420 km s
Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of Mohammed Aboud, a Shi'ite militia fighter who was killed in clashes with the Free Syrian Army, during a funeral in Basra, 420 km southeast of Baghdad, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST)