Bearing Witness in Syria: A Correspondent’s Last Days (Published 2012)The armed opposition in Syria is led by the underequipped Free Syrian Army.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times It was damp and cold as Anthony Shadid and I crossed in darkness over the barbed-wire fence that separated Turkey from Syria last month. We were also crossing from peace into war, into the bloodiest conflict of the Arab Spring, exploding just up the rocky and sparsely wooded mountain
