![]() ![]() ![]() Video posted by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad seemed to show that many had been shot in the back of the head while their hands were bound. Scores of Bodies Found in Syria, Activists SayĪn activist group with opposition contacts in Syria said on Tuesday that the muddied bodies of scores of people, most of them men in their 20s and 30s, had been found in a suburb of the northern city of Aleppo. "This is where I learned most of the fighting skills I now use in the fight against Assad," Mahmoud told Al Jazeera in Sheikh Saeed, now the most active frontline in the city. But when the Libyan revolution broke out in February 2011, he joined his friends in their battle against Muammar Gaddafi's forces. He fled to Libya, where he took up his professional passion: sculpting. His crime? He had fallen in love with the minister's daughter. He said he was jailed and tortured by the regime for a year, and then forced to leave Syria. Mahmoud, a 28-year-old rebel fighting on the frontline in the Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood, was fired from his job three years ago. In the early days of the Syrian uprising, their personal rebellions brought them together and have since pushed them both to become fighters in Aleppo's battle against President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Nour al-Hassan was a stylish hairdresser. Mahmoud al-Halabi was once the driver of a Syrian minister's wife. Newlyweds fight together on Syria frontline ![]()
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