Today in Pictures: Aug. 24, 2012

A Syrian man shows marks of torture on his back, after he was released from regime forces, in the Bustan Pasha neighborhood of Syria's northern city of Aleppo, Aug. 23, 2012. State media hailed the recapture by the army of three Christian neighborhoods in the heart of Aleppo, but clashes between troops and rebel fighters raged in other parts of the city and in the southern belt of Damascus. (James Lawler Duggan/AFP/Getty Images)