Crackdown in Syria
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A Free Syrian Army fighter holds a home made grenade as another fighter has coffee for breakfast in Idlib, Syria. Syria's president defied mounting international pressure to end the year-old crackdown on an uprising against him and announced he was determined to go on fighting what he called "foreign-backed terrorism." The U.N. says more than 7,500 people have been killed since Syria's uprising started in March 2011.
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Children warm their hands by a fire in Idlib. Syrian refugees fleeing to neighboring Lebanon said they feared they would be slaughtered in their own homes as government forces hunted down opponents in a brutal offensive against the opposition stronghold of Homs.
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A man teaches 11-year-old Bilal how to use a toy rocket propelled grenade in Idlib.
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A man carries a Rocket Propelled Grenade in the al-Hamidiya neighborhood of the restive city of Homs.
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Muhammed Ibrahim, 18, a singer in the region of Hama, Syria, lies in the Kemal Ataturk University hospital in Antakya, Turkey. Ibrahim says he was leading a crowd shouting anti-Assad slogans when the protesters in the village of Kafr Nboda were struck by a shell fired by the Syrian army on Feb. 16.
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A Syrian child is seen with her family who fled from the Syrian town of Qusair near Homs, at the Lebanese-Syrian border village of Qaa, eastern Lebanon. More than a thousand Syrian refugees have poured across the border into Lebanon, among them families with small children carrying only plastic bags filled with their belongings.
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Free Syrian Army supporters chant anti-government slogans under snowfall on the outskirts of Idlib.
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Syrian boys survey the damage after a clash between the Free Syrian Army and President Assad's forces in Sarmin. According to residents of the city, at least fourteen people were killed during clashes between the Free Syrian Army and government forces.
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Villagers chant anti-government slogans during the funeral of Ghassan Ali who was killed during clashes between the Free Syrian Army and government forces in Sarmin.
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A family evacuates their belongings as they flee their home because of the Syrian Army shelling in central Idlib, north Syria. European Union foreign ministers announced they were increasingly appalled by the Syrian government's ruthless campaign of repression against civilians, and imposed new sanctions in hopes of pressuring the regime to change course.
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A Free Syrian Army fighter takes position as the Syrian Army advances towards the town of Sarmin.
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A boy stands in front of a shop destroyed in Syrian Army shelling in the center of Idlib.
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Members of the Free Syrian Army prepare to leave to an undisclosed location in the outskirts of Qusayr. The Syrian army shelled Qusayr in an effort to regain control of the town in the mostly rebel-held central province of Homs, an AFP journalist said.
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Members of the Free Syrian Army move weapons, medicine and personnel across a river near Al Janoudiyah, in the Idlib province.
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People burn portraits of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad during a demonstration against his regime in the outskirts from Idlib.
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A Syrian rebel aims his rifle inside a classroom at a school in Deir Baalbeh neighborhood of Homs province.
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Syrian flags are waved as people take to the streets after voting on a new constitution that could end five decades of single-party domination in the capital Damascus.
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Supporters of the Free Syrian Army ride a motorcycle with a rocket-propelled grenade in Kafar Taharim.
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A boy holds the portrait of a man killed by the Syrian Army during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
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A protestor against the Syrian regime stands in front of flames rising from a burning shop damaged by Syrian government shelling in Homs province, Syria. The Arab League called for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad's regime in the League's latest effort to bring an end to the violence that has killed more than 5,000 people.
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Mourners carry the body of a Syrian rebel the day after he was killed in fighting in Idlib.
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A Syrian rebel runs for cover during an exchange of fire with army troops in Idlib. The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence.
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Two Syrian rebels evacuate an injured rebel in Idlib.
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A damaged house from shells fired by Syrian government forces in Homs province.
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A Syrian rebel retreats for medical treatment following an exchange of fire with army troops in Idlib.
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A member of the group that calls itself Free Syrian Army fires a gun in Homs. The bombardment of Homs, the hot bed of the resistance to President Bashar Assad's regime, has intensified after Syria's allies Russia and China vetoed a resolution at the United Nations that would have condemned the Assad regime's crackdown on dissent and called on him to transfer some of his powers to his deputy.
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A member of the Free Syrian Army stands guard as anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a demonstration in Idlib. The U.S. closed its Syrian embassy and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a dramatic escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power, just days after diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to end the crisis collapsed.
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Syrian rebels gather in an alley as they secure a demonstration in Idlib.
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Anti-government protesters carry the coffin of a slain protester during the funeral of two comrades killed in earlier clashes in Idlib.
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Syrian rebels in Idlib.
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An Arab delegate rushes to attend the foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo to discuss the organization's next move on Syria.
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A child's face is painted with the colors of the Syrian flag during a rally in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon to show support for the Syrian people and against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Lebanese soldiers secure an area in the neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh in the northern city of Tripoli, following fierce clashes between Lebanese Sunni Muslims hostile to Syria's regime and Alawites who support it. The rival factions fired guns and rocket-propelled grenades at each other, killing three people in the bloodiest clashes since June, when six people died in the wake of demonstrations against Syria's government.
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The Jabal Mohsen neighborhood appears from a hole in a wall caused by a rocket-propelled grenade in the neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
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Jordanian riot policemen stand guard outside the Syrian embassy in Amman during two protests, one supporting and the other opposing to the regime in Syria.
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A gunman takes position in the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh during clashes between Lebanese Sunni Muslims hostile to Syria's ruling regime and Alawites who support it in Tripoli.
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Syrian security forces raid the border village of Deriko Hamko as they look for suspects of car bomb attacks. Witnesses claimed security forces took five men into custody. The car bombs targeted security posts in Syria's second city of Aleppo, killing at least 25 people, even as tanks surged into battered protest hub Homs.
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Syrian rebels take their position behind a wall as they fire their guns during a battle with the Syrian government forces. Syrian troops crushed pockets of rebel soldiers on the outskirts of Damascus, fueling some of the bloodiest fighting of the 10-month-old uprising.
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A Syrian man gestures during an anti-regime protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan.
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Syrians chant slogans during an anti-regime protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan.
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Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to show their support for their president in Damascus.
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This video frame shows smoke billowing after explosions in Homs, Syria.
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A Syrian police station building is seen through a smashed car windshield soon after an attack by a suicide bomber in Damascus. An explosion ripped through a police bus in the center of Syria's capital, killing many in an attack authorities blamed on a suicide bomber.
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Syrian investigators stand next to a damaged car at the scene of a bomb in Midan neighborhood of Damascus.
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This video frame shows an armored personnel carrier in flames after it attacked protesters in Homs.
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Sister Stefanie, the head of the Sednaya Monastery, shows journalists damage caused to the convent during a recent shelling. Journalists were taken to the monastery located to the northwest of Damascus, on a government-organized trip to view damage caused to the convent that came under artillery fire.
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A huge poster of President Bashar al-Assad hangs over government supporters during a pro-regime rally in Damascus.
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Syrian people demonstrate outside the Arab League building in Cairo, Egypt. The demonstration comes as Saudi Arabia removed itself from the Arab League mission in Syria due to the "failiure of Damascus" to stop violence against protestors.
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Syrians residing in Egypt join a rally outside the Arab League headquarters in Cairo during the Arab foreign ministers meeting to decide the future of its heavily criticized observer mission to Syria.
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Anti-regime demonstrators, said to be under the control of the Free Syrian Army, gather in the Khalidiya neighborhood of Homs, Syria. Syrian activists held new protests to demand that the government honor the terms of an Arab League deal to end 10 months of bloodshed.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad waves at supporters during a rare public appearance in Damascus in which he vowed to defeat a "conspiracy" against Syria, a day after he blamed foreign interests for stoking months of deadly violence.
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A protester in Homs throws a tear gas bomb back towards security forces. Syrian police used tear gas to disperse some 70,000 people who took to the streets of Homs a day after dozens of people died in the crackdown on dissent.
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This video frame shows a Syrian tank driving through the city of Homs. Heavy gunfire killed 23 people as newly arriving Arab League observers were urged to head immediately to one of the country's most serious hot spots.
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Pro-regime protesters gesture toward a statue of a solider during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria. Syrian troops have killed dozens in one of the deadliest episodes of the 9-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime, activists said Wednesday.
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A young woman with her face painted with the Syrian flag shouts during a demonstration against President Bashar al-Assad in front of the Syrian Consulate in Istanbul. More than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since pro-democracy protests began in mid March, according to the United Nations.
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Syrians living in Turkey chant slogans as they wave flags during a protest against the government of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in front of the Syrian consulate in Istanbul. Syria has reached a "point of no return" in the regime's crackdown on opposition demonstrators, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said during his state visit to Britain.
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A pro-Syrian regime protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in Damascus during a demonstration against the Arab League meeting held in Morocco.
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Pro-Syrian regime protesters, carry a giant Syrian flag during a demonstration against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria.
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The empty chair of Syria is pictured in Rabat during a meeting of Arab nations to further tighten the noose around an increasingly isolated Syria. Since the Arab League's landmark decision to suspend Syria over its crackdown on protests -- only the third time a member was suspended in the pan-Arab body's history -- the pressure has mounted further on President Bashar al-Assad.
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Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans and carry a giant Syrian flag during a demonstration against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria in Damascus.
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