Civilians walk past Free Syrian Army fighters standing at their checkpoint in Aleppo's Bustan Al Qasr, yesterday.
The regime of President Bashar Al Assad claims that thousands of foreign Islamist extremists have infiltrated into Syria joining the ranks of the rebels. Bahraini Sunni cleric Adel Al Hamad had announced in a video posted recently online that his 19-year-old son, Abdulrahman, was killed while fighting in Syria. He said his son “hoped to fall as a martyr,” but he did not specify when or where in Syria he died. AFP
