Syrian Civil War
A Syrian military soldier holds his AK-47 with a sticker of Syrian President Bashar Assad that reads, "Syria is fine," as he stands guard at a check point on Baghdad street, in Damascus, Syria, Aug. 21, 2013. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog, which relies on a network of contacts on the ground in Syria, said that more than 100,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed since th
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Syrian Civil War
A Syrian military soldier holds his AK-47 with a sticker of Syrian President Bashar Assad that reads, "Syria is fine," as he stands guard at a check point on Baghdad street, in Damascus, Syria, Aug. 21, 2013. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog, which relies on a network of contacts on the ground in Syria, said that more than 100,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed since thHassan Ammar/AP PhotoSyrian Civil War
Syrian refugees cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, August 17, 2013. Faced with brutal violence and soaring prices, thousands of Syrian Kurds have poured into Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, seeking respite from fighting between Kurdish fighters and jihadists.Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
People search the rubble of a building which collapsed after it was allegedly bombed from the air during clashes between rebel fighters and pro-government troops, Aug. 16, 2013, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.Fouad/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
An armed man wearing a ski mask stands guard outside a bakery run by the Islamic rebel group "Ahrar Al-Sham", in the northern city of Raqqa, Aug. 11, 2013.Alice Martins/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
Bodies lie at a morgue following fighting between rebel fighters and Syrian government forces, Aug. 10, 2013 in the northern city of Raqqa, the only provincial capital in rebel hands.Alice Martins/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
Soldiers of the Syrian government forces patrol a devastated street, July 31, 2013 in the district of al-Khalidiyah in the central Syrian city of Homs.Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
Syrian volunteers try to evacuate 8-year-old Mahmud Fayad still trapped under the rubble of a destroyed house after a barrel bomb was dropped from an air force helicopter in Saraqeb in northwestern Syria, July 20, 2013. The boy's mother and sister were believed to be killed in the attack.Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
The father of three-year-old Khaled Baour weeps as he holds the body of his son who was killed alongside his older sister Safia, 14, July 13, 2013 in Syria's southern Idlib province.Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
A Syrian youth dives into a swimming pool as people enjoy a day out in the northern city of Aleppo, July 12, 2013.JM Lopez/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
A rebel fighter holds an improvised mortar shell, one of many stacked at a factory in the city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital, July 7, 2013.JM Lopez/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
A Syrian girl crosses the street holding a bag in the center of Syria's northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, June 28, 2013.Abo Shuja/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
Syrian girls walk with their mother as she turns to look at smoke billowing from three shells dropped on the town of Al-Bara in the northwestern province of Idlib, June 24, 2013.Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian Civil War
A child poses near his mother at the entrance of their living place at the Domiz refugee camp, 20 km southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, which houses Syrian-Kurd refugees, May 29, 2013.Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images
