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From 70-year-old Mohamed Tayeb Ismail, a white-haired
grandfather, to his teenage grandson Adnan, 30 men from the same family make up
the “Saiqa” (Lightning) unit of rebel fighters in Syria’s Aleppo.
The patriarch, wearing a white keffiyeh headdress and military fatigues, holds his Kalashnikov assault rifle and carries a knife.
He tells his attentive sons and grandsons he wants to “fight until the fall of Bashar al-Assad”, Syria’s embattled president, who responded to an initially peaceful uprising with violent repression.
