Mahmoud al-Halabi and Nour al-Hassan got married one year after they met [Basma Atassi/Al Jazeera]
Newlyweds Fight Together On Syria Frontline -- Al Jazeera
A couple fighting against government forces discover love and tie the knot amid death and destruction.
Aleppo, Syria - Mahmoud al-Halabi was once the driver of a Syrian minister's wife. Nour al-Hassan was a stylish hairdresser. In the early days of the Syrian uprising, their personal rebellions brought them together and have since pushed them both to become fighters in Aleppo's battle against President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Mahmoud, a 28-year-old rebel fighting on the frontline in the Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood, was fired from his job three years ago. He said he was jailed and tortured by the regime for a year, and then forced to leave Syria.
His crime? He had fallen in love with the minister's daughter.
He fled to Libya, where he took up his professional passion: sculpting. But when the Libyan revolution broke out in February 2011, he joined his friends in their battle against Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
"This is where I learned most of the fighting skills I now use in the fight against Assad," Mahmoud told Al Jazeera in Sheikh Saeed, now the most active frontline in the city.
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My Comment: I am posting this Al Jazeera story because this is a perfect illustration of what Syria is today .... broken families taking sides against each other in a frenzy of killings and revenge in a radicalized environment.
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