Defectors battle Syrian security forces

Exclusive footage shows self-styled Free Syrian Army using heavy weapons as they take on former comrades.

    A group of Syrian army defectors fighting against Bashar al-Assad's government are using heavy weapons, according to exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera.

    The group, which calls itself the Free Syrian Army, is calling on the international community to impose a no-fly zone and to arm the opposition.

    Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley reports.

    SOURCE: Al Jazeera

    YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

    Interactive: How does your country vote at the UN?

    Interactive: How does your country vote at the UN?

    Explore how your country voted on global issues since 1946, as the world gears up for the 74th UN General Assembly.

    'We were forced out by the government soldiers'

    'We were forced out by the government soldiers'

    We dialled more than 35,000 random phone numbers to paint an accurate picture of displacement across South Sudan.

    Interactive: Plundering Cambodia's forests

    Interactive: Plundering Cambodia's forests

    Meet the man on a mission to take down Cambodia's timber tycoons and expose a rampant illegal cross-border trade.