Inside The Battle For Damascus

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2013 · People & Blogs

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CNN's Fred Pleitgen went out with Syria's front line soldiers to see first-hand the continuing battle for Damascus.

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Syria: Front line battles take Damascus suburbs back to 'stone age' (CNN, Dec 2, 2013)
http://cnn.it/1eHKQW6
"Syria's brutal conflict between regime and rebel forces is creeping closer and closer to nervous residents in the areas of Damascus still under government control. But in some suburbs of the capital, all-out war is already here. Snipers swap shots around the clock in Tadamon, a district in southern Damascus. The front line here has been static for months now, but fighting has increased recently as the government has won back neighboring districts and opposition fighters have fled to this area..."

'Massive evidence' links Syrian regime to war crimes, U.N. official says (CNN, Dec 2, 2013)
http://cnn.it/18bGZzv
"A United Nations fact-finding team has found "massive evidence" that the highest levels of the Syrian government are responsible for war crimes in the nation's long-running civil war, the U.N.'s human rights chief said Monday. Navi Pillay didn't name President Bashar al-Assad, but she said the evidence collected by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria implicates the regime's top man. The panel's members have "outlined their view that the facts point to the commission of very serious crimes, war crimes, crimes against humanity," Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland. "They point to the fact that the evidence indicates responsibility at the highest level of government, including the head of state.""


Syria Conflict: 'Chemical Attacks Kill Hundreds' (YT, Aug 21, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJ8sxVsefg

Car Bomb Ravages Central Damascus (YT, Feb 21, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQXX-lYEUA

Fighting The Enemy Within (Damascus Burning)  (YT, Jan 23, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8HvHlSaZZI

Bombings, Raids And Downed Aircraft (YT, Nov 28, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hYsX489u-g

Syrian Defence Minister Killed In Suicide Bombing (YT, Jul 18, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CF4c7KWnA8

Looming Endgame (YT, Jul 18, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb1pqK3ODls

Like Baghdad On A Bad Day (YT, May 11, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0aFpZFwfw8

Suicide Bombings Apparently Arrive In Syria (YT, Dec 23, 2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCBDmlM9ypM


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