"Fidaa Itani, a reporter
for the private Lebanese Broadcasting Cooperation International (LBCI) and
several other Lebanese news outlets, was accompanying the Free Syrian Army and
reporting on military operations in Aleppo when he was seized in the Aazaz
neighborhood, according to news
reports. A rebel militia called
the Northern Storm Battalion of Aazaz reported on its Facebook page that the journalist was
being held under "house arrest" and had been detained because "his work was not
suitable with the course of the Syrian revolution and revolutionaries,"
news
reports said. The Free Syrian
Army is not a single, unified organization, but an overarching name for numerous
local militias such as Northern Storm Battalion that at times have conflicting agendas."