APTOPIX Mideast Syria Rebels Hearts And Minds
In this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 file photo, a Syrian woman, right, kisses a soldier from the Free Syrian Army, in front a destroyed Syrian army for...
In this Wednesday, March 21, 2012 file photo, a Syrian woman, right, kisses a soldier from the Free Syrian Army, in front a destroyed Syrian army forces tank which was attacked during clashes between the Syrian government forces and the Syrian rebels in Rastan, Syria. As Syria's rebels gain ground across the country, the fighters are trying to win the hearts and minds of their countrymen and the international community --capturing army diesel trucks to give to impoverished villagers, working to restore damaged power lines and smuggling in foreign journalists. (AP Photo, File)
Mideast Syria
A Syrian man walks by a house destroyed in a Syrian government bombing last week that killed more than 40 people, in Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo...
A Syrian man walks by a house destroyed in a Syrian government bombing last week that killed more than 40 people, in Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Mideast Syria Rebels Hearts And Minds
In this Friday Aug. 17, 2012 file photo, Syrian fighters search for survivors under the rubble of a building destroyed in an airstrike by Syrian gove...
In this Friday Aug. 17, 2012 file photo, Syrian fighters search for survivors under the rubble of a building destroyed in an airstrike by Syrian government planes in Aleppo, Syria. As Syria's rebels gain ground across the country, the fighters are trying to win the hearts and minds of their countrymen and the international community -- capturing army diesel trucks to give to impoverished villagers, working to restore damaged power lines and smuggling in foreign journalists. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
UN Syria
Lakhdar Brahimi, newly-appointed Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria arrives at his meeting wi...
Lakhdar Brahimi, newly-appointed Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria arrives at his meeting with UN Secretary General at United Nations Headquarters Friday, Aug. 24 20102 (AP Photo/David Karp)
Syrian rebels have freed one of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims they have been holding for three months.
Hussein Ali Omar appeared healthy in an interview aired on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV after his release Saturday, urging the Lebanese and Arabs to support the Syrian people as the country's civil war escalates.
The Shiite pilgrims were abducted May 22 after crossing into Syria from Turkey on their way to Lebanon.
A previously unheard of group calling itself "Syrian Rebels in Aleppo" claimed responsibility.
The group demanded that the leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, apologize for recent comments in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Nasrallah, an ally of Assad's regime, has said the kidnapping would not change his group's stance.
