Syria Video Essay (3 August): More Night Prayer and Protest
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 20:47
James Miller in Aleppo, Damascus, EA Middle East and Turkey, Idlib, Lattakia, Ramadan, Syria, Taraweeh, night protests

For the third night in a row, civilians in Syria attend their local mosques to pray Taraweeh, part of their Ramadan tradition. After the prayers, the protests begin. We've already received reports of casualties and violence, and we will update this video list as video filters in.

See also today's liveblog, Syria (and Beyond) LiveBlog: The Sights and Sounds of Protest

See also Syria Video Special: Another Defiant Night of Ramadan Protests


UPDATED Thursday, 0503 GMT: We have received over 50 videos of protests tonight, here are just a sampling. Notice that there has been very little video, or news, out of Hama since this morning, where the military action has only intensified, and most forms of communication have been shut down.

Bullets ring out in the night sky over Homs:

A protester is killed this evening in the Shahid neighborhood, in the center of Damascus. If this video is accurate (we have no way of verifying) then it means that the protests, and the violence, have reached into the heart of Damascus:

MAssive rally, caliming to have been taken in Ugarit, Damascus:

Protesters scatter as they are attacked in Khalidiya, Homs (matches reports of activists received earlier this evening):

Claiming to have been taken earlier today, bullets ring out from snipers on rooftops in Jableh, on the coast:

Bullets and huge explosions ring out in Lattakia tonight:

Deir Ez Zor:

Ugarit, Idlib:

The people of Aleppo, in the Halab Al-jadide district, protest in solidarity with Hama:

Aleppo

Al Rastan:

Huge protests in Lattakia, before the gunfire:

Kafroumeh, Idlib Province:

Ma'arat al Numan (Northwest)

Kafranbel, Ma'arat al Numan

Claimed video of protests outside the "Great Mosque," Umayyad, in Damascus:

The Qaboun neighborhood of Damascus:

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