On the march with Assad’s army: ‘Unusually, the Syrian army took rebel prisoners. Ominously, I saw none’ March 18, 2014 by Fulcrum The battle for Yabroud is over, but its Greek Catholic church has been savagely vandalised by its former rebel occupants, its streets carpeted with cartridge cases, its houses smashed with shell holes. Syria’s soldiers – along with a host of Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon – watched General Badi Ali raise the government flag on Monday, too late to save the beautiful frescoes slashed into ribbons by the men of the Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic Front in Syria’s oldest church. Robert Fisk. Independent. 17 March 2014 FulcrumShareTweetShare
