Battle in a Syrian army base
Syria’s bloody conflict has already left over 60,000 dead and the number of casualties is still rising. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 180 people were killed across the country on Feb. 3 alone, including 114 rebel fighters and soldiers.
One of the clashes that took place that day, documented by Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic, happened when rebels entered a Syrian Army base in Damascus.
A rebel fighter hurls a hand grenade in a Syrian Army base during heavy fighting.
A rebel fires his rifle through a hole in the wall.
He prepares to fire his gun.
Other rebels take cover after being wounded by a hand grenade.
A rebel gestures to his comrades.
A group of rebels take cover during the heavy fighting.
Another rebel fighter runs for cover.
Fighters keep low to avoid being hit.
A rebel holds up the head of a mannequin to a hole in the wall, hoping to locate a sniper.
A rebel fires his rifle through a hole in the wall.
The same fighter is shot in the head by a sniper, and dust is sent flying.
He clutches the wound on his forehead.
His fellow fighters come to his aid.
Blood runs down his face as he is carried away.
