Frederik Pleitgen
CNN
December 2, 2013
Syria’s brutal conflict between regime and rebel forces is creeping
closer and closer to nervous residents in the areas of Damascus still
under government control. But in some suburbs of the capital, all-out
war is already here.
Snipers swap shots around the clock in Tadamon, a district in
southern Damascus. The front line here has been static for months now,
but fighting has increased recently as the government has won back
neighboring districts and opposition fighters have fled to this area.
“It is pretty much every day that they try to attack our positions.
It happens in the mornings, the afternoons, the evenings and at night.
When we see them, we shoot,” one Syrian soldier told CNN, never taking
his eyes off the battle-scarred swath of no man’s land visible through
his sniper scope.
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