DEATH FROM AFAR (graphic content)
In urban warfare, snipers can exert control over large area inside a city and can take weeks for the opposing side to neutralize. Moreover, snipers can inflict heavy casualties on the opposing side by remaining largely out-of-sight, mobile and flexible to the changing landscape. They can bobby-trap a building making it impossible to capture without inflicting heavy losses on their enemies. In Aleppo, both the Free Syria Army and the regime rely...
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In urban warfare, snipers can exert control over large area inside a city and can take weeks for the opposing side to neutralize. Moreover, snipers can inflict heavy casualties on the opposing side by remaining largely out-of-sight, mobile and flexible to the changing landscape. They can bobby-trap a building making it impossible to capture without inflicting heavy losses on their enemies. In Aleppo, both the Free Syria Army and the regime rely heavily on snipers - the cat and mouse game of Aleppo's front lines.
On October 20, 2012, members of the Al-Baraa Bin Malek Katiba, a part of the Free Syria Army under the Al-Fatah brigade, attempted to rescue a man who was shot by a sniper positioned in a building across the street on a main road that crosses the Bustan Al-Bashar district of Aleppo. Several vehicles drove past this man as he looked up in desperation (no one stopped because of the risk of being shot by the sniper). At a moment's notice, the man stood up and began to run towards the members of the Free Syria Army. As he approached the other side of the street, he was shot a second time, falling to the ground. Free Syria Army soldiers crawled through the ground to reach him and pulled them towards a vehicle that rushed him to the hospital. It is not known if he survived. Three civilians were shot on this main road in the space of three hours by the same sniper.
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