DAMASCUS (Reuters) - With the enemy at the gates, Bashar al-Assad was dining out.
The sound of gunfire and explosions carried to central Damascus as his troops clashed in the suburbs last Saturday with rebels who had seized towns near the capital. Masked gunmen erected checkpoints on the city outskirts.
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