A correspondent for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Arabic news channel, identified as Medyan Dairieh, runs after being injured in the leg across a sniper corridor during heavy fighting in the Saif al-Dawla district of Aleppo yesterday. Syrian forces blitzed areas in and around the northern commercial city, destroying a number of homes, activists said, as Western powers sought to tighten the screws on strongman Bashar al-Assad. Page 4