So ... what's happening on the world war front in Syria?

There are citizens of 83 countries in Syria testing out  weapons on behalf of armament manufacturers of the USA, UK and France.  They are doing the testing on each other and on the Syrian soldiers and those who have come to the aid of Syria to rid itself of terrorist bands.  IMO, that's not a civil war ... that's a world war III battleground.

The first vid is from a week ago, maybe even longer.  Have no idea why the YouTube poster keeps titling every vid  as "violence today" when in reality the vids are from days or even weeks ago.

From Reuters:
....Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told Turkey it will pay a heavy price for backing rebels fighting to oust him, accusing it of harboring "terrorists" along its border who, he said, would soon turn on their hosts.
In an interview with Turkey's Halk TV due to be broadcast later on Friday, Assad called Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan "bigoted" and said Ankara was allowing terrorists to cross into Syria to attack the army and Syrian civilians.
"It is not possible to put terrorism in your pocket and use it as a card because it is like a scorpion which won't hesitate to sting you at the first opportunity," Assad said, according to a transcript from Halk TV, which is close to Turkey's opposition.
"In the near future, these terrorists will have an impact on Turkey and Turkey will pay a heavy price for it.".......

Ken Dilanian and Raja Abdulrahim writing at LATimes:
.. U.S. fears radical Islamists could take root in Syria.  Officials say Syria is now the global focal point for militants who want to wage holy war, eclipsing Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. U.S. intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Al Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups could carve out a haven in Syria that will offer the kind of sanctuary they once enjoyed in northwestern Pakistan, current and former U.S. officials say.
Officials say a clandestine CIA program that provides rudimentary training and weapons to U.S.-backed politically moderate insurgents is unlikely to curb the growing strength of extremists among the opposition militias seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad.....
...."I think Syria is heading toward becoming the next FATA," said a U.S. official regularly briefed on intelligence, referring to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, where Al Qaeda and its allies plotted attacks against the West until U.S. drone strikes and other counter-terrorism efforts decimated their forces.....



From EuroNews:
Two French reporters taken hostage in Syria. The French Foreign Ministry has disclosed that two more French journalists have been taken hostage in Syria, bringing the number of French journalists kidnapped in the country to four.
Nicolas Henin, who worked for Le Point magazine and Arte television, and Pierre Torres, who was photographing elections in the northeast city of Raqqa were kidnapped on June 22.
The news wasn’t made public until now out of respect for their families....
...Two other French reporters, Didier Francois and Edouard Elias, have been missing since they were kidnapped while working in Syria on June 6.

From AP:
International inspection teams overseeing  the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons will have to negotiate cease-fires between government and rebel forces to gain access to some sites, officials closely involved with the mission said Wednesday.
The revelation is a clear indication of the risks and difficulties of the unprecedented disarmament plan, and it suggests that the effort to rid Damascus of its poison gas stockpile may have a hard time meeting its mid-2014 deadline.

Mary Chastain writing at Breitbart:
Syrian Christians choose to stay because it's God's call. Christians are facing heavy persecution in Syria, but while some are fleeing the country, there are quite a few staying behind. They believe God wants them to reach out to the Islamists that attack them daily. 
"There are some Christians who are fleeing because they have no other choice, but there are many Christians who have really felt God's call to stay in town, even though they have been attacked and targeted because of their faith. They realize that God's using them, and (are reaching) out to their Muslim neighbors," Emily Fuentes, PR and Communications Coordinator at Open Doors USA, shared with The Christian Post in a phone interview on Friday.
  
Christopher Hope writing at TelegraphUK:
....Charity cash 'going to Syrian terror groups' People giving money to help millions of refugees from the civil war in Syria are inadvertently supporting terrorism, the charity watchdog has warned.  Some of their cash was “undoubtedly” going to extremist groups, said William Shawcross, the chairman of the Charity Commission.
Conditions on the ground in the midst of conflict made it difficult or impossible for charities to know where aid ended up, he said.
The Disasters Emergency Committee, which represents 14 of Britain’s biggest charities, has raised £20 million since the launch of its Syria Crisis Appeal in March. Its members include the British Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children.
But it said it was unable to guarantee that no cash was falling into the hands of terrorists.......... 

From Reuters:
Two mortar bombs fired from Syria hit an Israeli military post on the occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday, wounding an Israeli soldier, in an incident that drew Israeli return fire, the military said.
Initial reports suggested the mortars were stray fire from Syria's civil war, the military said in a statement. The soldier was wounded by shrapnel.....



Khaled Yacoub Oweis writing at Reuters:
Iraqi and Lebanese Shi'ite militia backed by Syrian army firepower overran a southern suburb of Damascus on Wednesday, opposition activists said, in a blow to Sunni Muslim rebels trying to hold onto strategic outskirts of the capital.
At least 20 rebels were killed when Hezbollah guerrillas and Iraqi militiamen captured the town of Sheikh Omar under cover of Syrian army artillery and tank fire and aerial bombardment, the activists said, with tens of Shi'ite fighters killed or wounded.....

From MaanNews:
Two mortar rounds hit Syria's central bank in the capital Damascus on Wednesday causing damage, a witness told AFP, but there were no reports of injuries.
The projectiles struck the building at around 7:40 a.m., the witness, a resident of a central Damascus neighborhood, told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"One hit the roof of the building and the second hit the garage," the resident added.
The extent of the damage to the bank was unclear, but there were no initial reports of injuries in the attack and traffic was moving normally in the area on Wednesday morning.

From DailyStar:
...Rebel shelling of one of Syria's two main oil refineries  on Wednesday set fire to the plant, already working at barely 10 percent of its capacity, a monitoring group said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the bombardment of the plant in the central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syria's oil industry has been massively hit since an uprising against the rule of president Bashar al-Assad erupted in March 2011.
Crude output now stands at barely 10 percent of its pre-uprising levels as a result of European Union sanctions that closed off Syria's main export markets and the rebels' capture of key oilfields that has hit even production for domestic use.........