Mobiles become weapons as tactics change in Syria’s new phoney war – Heavy casualties are reshaping the nature of the conflict. Robert Fisk reports from Damascus
A man was stopped at a government checkpoint on the highway north of Deraa and his mobile phone taken. The soldier found an SMS message which said: “I am in the hospital. The shooting has started.” Assuming that the man was a rebel signalling his whereabouts to his comrades, the […]