BREAKING NEWS

Teenagers' blood flows in video from Syrian city

By REUTERS

MAY 1, 2011 21:07

AMMAN - Blood spurts from the heads of shot teenagers, staining the asphalt, in amateur video obtained by Reuters from inside the besieged Syrian city of Deraa where government forces are trying to crush weeks of protests.

"He has a pulse. He has a pulse," one teenager shouts next to the blood-soaked body of a youth in jeans. "No, no. Martyr. Martyr," he says as his comrades rush to carry the body under a hail of machine gun bullets.

The footage was believed to have been taken on Friday in the southern city where protests broke out in March, the start of a six-week-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Troops and tanks stormed into Deraa on April 25.

More footage shows a similar scene at a road leading to Deraa, where young villagers on motorcycles rushed on Friday to support their relatives under the week-long siege.

Biden meets with released four-year-old hostage Abigail Idan

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

04/24/2024 09:55 PM

France arrests teen after he said he wants to die a 'martyr' at Olympics

By REUTERS

04/24/2024 08:50 PM

Spain PM Sanchez says he is suspending public duties to "reflect"

By REUTERS

04/24/2024 08:41 PM

US to name former UN official as new Gaza aid envoy

By REUTERS

04/24/2024 07:33 PM