Tripoli, Lebanon - Abu Huraira is haunted by memories of shells falling from the sky, ripping to pieces people trying to bury their loved ones in a Syrian graveyard. He is unnerved by the mental images of mutilated bodies, and of bones laid bare in his rebel comrades' deep wounds.
But the 24-year-old Lebanese man is nevertheless planning to return to Syria to fight in the civil war against its government, led by President Bashar al-Assad.
The muscular man - who follows Salafism, a strict form of Sunni Islam - recalls the bloody battles he fought in the Syrian city of Qusair last summer. Abu Huraira had crossed the border with 16 of his friends to fight against Assad's forces - but more importantly against Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia armed group that sent fighters to boost Assad's troops in Qusair.
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