In Damascus with the Rebels
After almost two years of conflict and over 60,000 deaths, the conflict in Syria between the government and rebel forces is still fierce. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the situation as “catastrophic and getting worse every day”.
Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic has been documenting the clashes between rebels and the Syrian Army in the capital Damascus.
A rebel fighter screams in pain as he is wounded by shrapnel from a hand grenade during heavy fighting in the Mleha suburb of Damascus.
Rebel fighters from the Free Syrian Army's Tahrir al Sham brigade look out of a window before they fire at government forces.
Rebels return fire on the Syrian Army during the heavy clashes.
A fighter with the rebel Tahrir al Sham brigade take aim through a hole in the wall in the Mleha suburb of Damascus.
A young rebel leans back, clutching a gun in one hand, as he sits on an ornate chair in a house in the Damascus suburb.
A rebel fighter is reflected in a mirror as he fires his sniper rifle through the yellow curtains of a house in Mleha.
A rebel fires back at government forces as he stands on pieces of rubble in a partially destroyed building,
Two anti-government fighters use a mirror to observe the Syrian Army’s position in the Haresta neighbourhood of Damascus.
A rebel fires at government forces in front of a picture of an idyllic house and garden.
A rebel fighter squats down, gripping his gun in one hand.
Rebels walk across piles of rubble from buildings destroyed by Syrian Army air strikes in Damascus' Arabeen neighbourhood.
A rebel fighter uses a shotgun to fire a homemade grenade at government soldiers during a fight in the Arabeen neighbourhood.
Surrounded by smoke, cables and debris, a man walks out of a burning building after a government air strike.
Two men stand in front of a smouldering building after a government air strike.
Rebel fighters pray in the street as others look on.
