Syrian Army, Hezbollah bear down on rebels in strategic Qusayr
Funnels of dirty gray smoke erupted silently from the center of , followed seconds later by the ground-shaking thump of exploding artillery shells as the pressed on today with a grueling offensive to capture the strategic Syrian rebel-held town. , five miles to the south, Qusayr appeared in the dusty haze as a thin slash of white buildings amid a landscape of green orchards and fields. But the bucolic rural scene belies a bloody battle underway for Qusayr, with some 2,000 Syrian rebel fighters and as many as 30,000 civilians hunkered down ...
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