Syria: anti-regime protesters demonstrate in Aleppo Syria's army sent reinforcements to a rebel town near Damascus as clashes raged south of the capital Friday, hours after talks on the conflict between the US, Russia and UN ended without a breakthrough. Meanwhile, in the northern city of Aleppo, supporters of the Free Syrian Army took to the streets in the neighbourhood of al-Fardos to protest against Bashar al-Assad's regime. Images and soundbites