Image taken from video footage from a social media website shows Syrian rebels exchanging gunfire with Syrian government forces at a checkpoint in Maaloula, a suburb of Damascus

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Syrian rebels from the “Maghawir of Baba Amer” and “Baba Amer Revolutionaries” brigades exchange gunfire with Syrian government forces at a checkpoint in Maaloula, a suburb of Damascus, in this image taken from a September 4, 2013 video footage obtained from a social media website. The unverified activist video said to be from Wednesday purportedly shows Syrian rebel forces storming the town of Maaloula and clashing with Syrian army troops at a checkpoint in the town that is home to a Christian majority. REUTERS/Social media website via Reuters TV (SYRIA – Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS)

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