UN Peacekeeper Flees Takfiri Captivity
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/18/329970/un-peacekeeper-flees-takf...
"A UN staffer with the peacekeeping mission in the Israeli occupied Syrian territory of the Golan Heights has managed to escape after nearly 8 months of being held by Takfiris operating in Syria.
Carl Campeau, a Canadian national advising the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Golan, said in an interview aired on Syria's state television on Thursday - that he was taken captive by the foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the suburbs of Damascus on Feb. 27.
'The terrorist kidnappers are from several countries...They are groups that do not know mercy.' Campeau stated."
Syrian Army Setting Up New Posts Around Damascus (and vid)
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/18/330032/syria-tightening-noose-ar...
"The Syrian government says it is expanding a ring of fortified army posts to cut off foreign-backed militants' supply lines into the Damascus countryside, Press TV reports.."