Assault on Rebels Damascus,

Syria's communications cut as troops mount assault near Damascus

Residents carry the body of a girl whom activists say was killed after an air strike by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Daria, near Damascus November 29, 2012. 
Image by: HANDOUT / REUTERS

Syrian troops have mounted an assault on rebels near Damascus, closing off the road to the airport amid a widespread telecommunications outage, as the US weighed what further help it can give the rebels.

You know, ...think of your own children what is like to me in that situation, you can not let this happen continually... world must act, must act...!