This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows the famed 12th century Umayyad mosque, which was damaged by shelling, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, May 13, 2013. Syrian troops have taken full control of a town near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan, a new advance in the regime’s campaign to drive rebels from the strategic south, an activist group said Monday. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)
Mideast Syria
