Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Planning for Life After Assad
Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 9:24An 8-minute drive through "liberated" parts of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, on Friday --- "Quiet but devastated streets. Tons of garbage. And a long bread queue that I was told was actually short --- they get much longer than this later in the day"
See also Syria Feature: US Plans for a Post-Assad Country
Saturday's Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Has the Regime Lost Aleppo?
2007 GMT: Egypt. Security officials have said at least 15 Egyptian policemen have been killed and seven wounded in an attack on a police station in north Sinai on the border with Israel.
Egyptian state television said an Islamist group was responsible but did not give details.
A border police patrol was reportedly breaking their fast when they were ambushed by armed men.
A senior security official said the attackers seized an armoured vehicle before driving away.