The Men Are Vanishing Here -- Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times
It was cold and drizzling as yet another family made homeless by war arrived in this town in northern Syria to start a new life in a tent.
Khadija al-Ali seemed to be trying not to cry as she explained how in the space of a week she had gone from middle-class housewife to homeless single mother.
Ms. Ali had lived a comfortable life in the northern city of Aleppo with her husband, a tailor, and their three children, ages 6, 3 and 1. Then, a week ago, a Syrian government jet dropped a bomb that destroyed the family house, but no one was home and the family members thanked God that they were safe.
A couple of days later, Ms. Ali’s husband disappeared in Aleppo. Maybe he was arrested at a checkpoint, or hit by a bomb, or targeted by the snipers now common in the city. One Aleppo resident told me about a friend who had been shot by a sniper in the shoulder and leg. It was too dangerous to pull him to safety, and he died on the street two days later.
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Among The Syrian Rebels, Heartbreak And Blood -- Jeffrey Goldberg, Chicago Tribune
Saturday night on the border between Jordan and Syria: Col. Nawaf Tahrawi, a commander of the Royal Jordanian Border Guard, climbed to the top of a three-story concrete watchtower, built next to a scrub-filled streambed.
In the cold dark of a cramped concrete room, Tahrawi asked a soldier operating a sophisticated thermal camera system if he had seen any movement in his sector. Just packs of dogs, he said, but he added that activity would no doubt pick up soon.
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