The Child Victims Of Syria's Civil War

Tim Marshall* has a piece on the Sky website about tribalism which tells us nothing, and Sam Kiley** has a piece on rebel calls for intervention with no evidence for same, but one of their correspondents has seen what is actually happening:
"Crawford witnessed fighter jets attacking targets near Marea, north of Aleppo, which included hospitals and a school on top of a house that was unoccupied at the time."

*[http://news.sky.com/…/the-tribal-undercurrent-in-syrias-civ…]
**[http://news.sky.com/…/rebel-calls-for-military-aid-in-syria…]

Syria fighting heightens fear in Damascus

"There are really two groups of people in Damascus - those who have benefited from the regime who fear the loss of their livelihood and businesses if the government falls, and those who see clearly the damage the regime has done."

Syria's minorities drawn into conflict

"The regime is doing everything it can to divide and rule, but luckily there are still wise people around."

Robert Fisk: 'They snipe at us then run and hide in sewers'

 Robert Fisk does point out the range of the insurgency's weapons, originating in such salafist strongholds as Sweden and Belgium, but this seems to combine the possibility of gullibility with reliance on hearsay:

 "So many Aleppo citizens talked to me, out of earshot of soldiers, about armed "foreigners" in their streets along with Syrians "from the countryside" that the presence of considerable numbers of non-Syrian gunmen appeared to be true."

Pursued by violence, pawns in Syrian conflict await an endgame

 "We asked the FSA to come and protect us. When they arrived, some were local people whom I knew, others were outsiders. People gave them food but they didn't sleep in our houses. For five or six days they were there but when word came of a government offensive they withdrew so as not to have ordinary people get hurt," he said.

 Gives a lie to the subtitle of Jonathan Steele's article:'Criticism of FSA tactics is building,' I recall that 'Building the Syrian State' has been saying much the same all along. Somebody with more focused counter-knowledge might be able to conclude definitively that this piece is absolute rubbish.

Airport

Syrian Rebel Forces Advance Close to the Airport at Aleppo[http://www.radiovop.com/…/9454-syrian-rebel-forces-advance-…]