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12 June 2013
Five brothers fighting for a Syrian rebel group pose for a picture in the northern city of Aleppo.
They said their brigade, called Martyr Al-Abbas, operated under the Free Syrian Army, and was established in memory of a sixth brother, Abbas Sheikh Yasine, who died in a battle against forces of President Assad’s regime.
Before the war one brother was a decorator, another worked in a restaurant — and the three others were still in school.
Activists said today that rebels attacked a village in the east, killing dozens of Shia, mostly pro-Assad fighters.
A government official denounced the attack at Hatla as a “massacre” of civilians.
