WE ARE INNOCENT: Syria's crisis

Friday, 3 August 2012

Syria's crisis

The Security Council will most likely not renew the mandate of the U.N. observer mission in Syria later this month, which would require it to pull out of the conflict-torn country, France's envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday, August 2.

In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, smoke leaps the air from purported shelling in Damascus, Syria. Syrian opposition activists say regime forces have swept through neighborhoods south of the capital Damascus in a deadly military operation that has inflicted casualties. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)

Members of the Free Syrian Army get ready after they were told a tank belonging to forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad is heading to their area in Aleppo's district of Salah Edinne July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A member of the Free Syrian Army carries ammunition as he prepares for their patrol in Attarib, on the outskirts of Aleppo province July 30, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Free Syrian Army members place frozen water bottles on the bodies of civilians killed by shelling, to prevent rapid decomposition, in Aleppo July 29, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A Free Syrian Army member takes position while people flee after hearing shelling at Aleppo's disctrict of al- Sukkari July 29,2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

In this Sunday, 22 July, 2012 photo a Syrian rebel fires his weapon during clashes with Syrian troops in Idlib, Syria. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)

In this Tuesday, July 24, 2012 photo, a Syrian rebel sits in the back of truck mounted with an anti aircraft weapon during clashes with Syrian troops in Idlib, Syria. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)

In this Sunday, 22 July, 2012 photo a Syrian rebel takes cover after he fires his weapon during clashes with Syrian troops in Idlib, Syria. uly is set to become the bloodiest month of an uprising that activists say has claimed 19,000 lives since it began on March 2011. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)

Damaged buildings are seen at Barza in Damascus July 27, 2012. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad at Binsh near Idlib July 27, 2012. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

Residents carry the body of Khaled Saad Eddin, whom activists say was killed by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, during his funeral at Houla, neighbourhood of Homs July 25, 2012. Picture taken July 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

Free Syrian Army soldiers pray at the Bab Al-Salam border crossing to Turkey July 22, 2012. Syrian forces regained control of one of two border crossings seized by rebels on the frontier with Iraq, Iraqi officials said, but rebels said they had captured a third border crossing with Turkey, Bab al-Salam north of Aleppo. "Seizing the border crossings does not have strategic importance but it has a psychological impact because it demoralises Assad's force," a senior Syrian army defector in Turkey, Staff Brigadier Faiz Amr, told Reuters by phone. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

A Free Syrian Army soldier steps on portraits of President Bashar al-Assad at the Bab Al-Salam border crossing to Turkey July 22, 2012. Syrian forces regained control of one of two border crossings seized by rebels on the frontier with Iraq, Iraqi officials said, but rebels said they had captured a third border crossing with Turkey, Bab al-Salam north of Aleppo. "Seizing the border crossings does not have strategic importance but it has a psychological impact because it demoralises Assad's force," a senior Syrian army defector in Turkey, Staff Brigadier Faiz Amr, told Reuters by phone. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

A Syrian refugee flashes the victory sign at a refugee camp near Zakho, an Iraqi border town with Syria, June 23, 2012. As Syria's crisis escalates, Syria's Kurdish provinces have been spared most of the violence. But increasingly, Syrian Kurds say they are fleeing to Iraqi Kurdistan to escape from growing economic hardship, kidnappings and instability. Picture taken June 23, 2012. To match Feature SYRIA-CRISIS/IRAQ REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

In this photo taken during a government-organized tour, Syrian soldiers stand next to burned cars after they regained control of the district of Midan, in the southern part of Damascus, Syria, Friday, July 20, 2012. Syrian troops and tanks on Friday drove rebels from a Damascus neighborhood where some of the heaviest of this week's fighting in the capital left cars gutted and fighters' bodies in the streets. Hundreds of people were killed in a single day, activists said, as the military struggles to regain momentum after a stunning bombing against the regime's leadership. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)