GRNLive Foreign Correspondents Network

Washington Post: Anti-regime protesters in the Damascus suburbs gave an Arab League peace observers’ mission an ecstatic welcome Tuesday, but warned that President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces would attack as soon as they left. After monitors crossed the sandbag-protected police post at the entrance to the main street of the Keswa district, people approached them first in a trickle and then a flood, desperate to tell their stories of family members arrested and killed.

Financial Times correspondent Abigail Fielding-Smith, Times correspondent Rania Abouzeid and Guardian correspondent Martin Chulov are available in Beirut.