Hugh Macleod and Annasofie Flamand

The for­ma­tion of a Libyan-style NTC in Turkey has not unit­ed frac­tured op­po­si­tion groups in­side and out­side of Syr­ia.

A trainee doc­tor tells of the blood­shed he wit­nessed dur­ing the Syr­i­an army’s siege of the city of Hama.

Near­ly 30 years af­ter a mas­sacre in the Syr­i­an city, the ghosts of Hama have come back to haunt the As­sad regime.

“Be­ing told to kill peace­ful civil­ians is the most bru­tal thing that ever hap­pened to me,” says de­fect­ed for­mer sniper.

As the up­ris­ing en­ters its fourth month, Syr­ia’s sec­ond city is be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly un­set­tled.