Although the control tower collapsed last week and the terminals and runways have been severely damaged by shelling, the airport holds great symbolic and strategic importance for both sides.
I'm staying by myself at home, my family could not cope any longer with the nonstop shelling, falling on us like heavy rain.
They said the army was advancing toward Jaar, another town in militant hands for over a year, in a three-pronged attack supported by heavy artillery shelling and air raids.
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Pessimists CNN: Snipers, clashes and shelling: Syrian truce on the edge of collapse.
Turkish troops retaliated against cross-border shelling from Syria for the sixth day in a row on Monday, the Telegraph reports.
Ambulances tried to evacuate patients but were forced to turn back by continued shelling.
Only after midnight, when the shelling eased, could we bury him near an olive tree.
Fertile fields famed for their melons, wheat and barley are now parched wastelands after irrigation canals were destroyed by shelling.
Then Darling stopped bank bosses taking bonuses but allowed RBS to keep shelling out to the overpaid troops on trading floors on the basis that without the payments, they would walk out of the door – and take lucrative business with them.
It has been broken almost daily with shelling from both sides.
