Syria, Daraa: Syrian women, holding up portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, gather on the side of a main road to throw rice and rose petals at army troops as they began their pull out from the southern protest hub of Daraa on May 5, 2011 after a military lockdown of more than a week during which dozens of people were killed in what activists termed as “indiscriminate” shelling of the town, some 100 kms south of the capital Damascus (AFP Photo taken on a guided government tour/ Louai Beshara)
