Syria Democracy Protesters Take Streets and Demand Fall of Dictatorship as Violence Escalates

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Aleppo’s weekly marchers brave bombs and bullets

AFP – Every Friday they take to the streets of Syria’s second city and commercial capital Aleppo, braving the threat of death to vent their fury against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Dozens of Syrians again protested after Friday prayers in the northern city, a battleground of fierce clashes.

Syria army, rebels clash near Aleppo bases

AFP – Syrian troops backed by helicopter gunships clashed with rebels near a barracks in Aleppo on Friday as battles broke out around a military airport elsewhere in the northern province, monitors said. In Damascus, state news agency SANA said the army unearthed the bodies of 25 people shot execution-style.