Fighting in Syria Continues Past Ceasefire Deadline
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Syrian rebels take position in the village of Azzara on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Homs.
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Tires burn in Damascus, Syria, after a bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting, killing three top regime officials - including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law — in the harshest blow to Syria's ruling family dynasty and the rebels' boldest attack in the country's civil war.
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Syrian troops participate in a live fire exercise in an undisclosed location in Syria.
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A Free Syrian Army solider trains at the northern town of Sarmada.
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Protesters chant slogans and carry Syrian revolutionary flags during a demonstration in Kafar Souseh, Damascus.
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Residents of the Syrian village of Treimsa gather around the vehicles of UN observers upon their arrival to investigate an attack on the village where more than 150 people were killed in the central province of Hama.
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Syrians point to the spot where a shell fell in the Syrian village of Treimsa, where more than 150 people were killed in the central province of Hama.
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Syrians lift a wounded man following shelling by Syrian government forces in Qusayr.
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A destroyed Syrian forces tank in a damaged street in Atareb. The majority of residents in Atareb have fled the town due to heavy fighting between Syrian forces and rebels.
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A Syrian rebel takes position at the Crac des Chevaliers near the village of Azzara on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Homs.
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A member of the Free Syrian Army holds a cigarette for his wounded comrade in the village of Azzara.
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A member of the Free Syria Army walks past a destroyed Syrian forces tank in the town Atareb.
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Members of the Free Syrian Army ride motorbikes in the village of Azzara on the outskirts of flashpoint city of Homs.
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A Syrian fireman attempts to extinguish fires at the scene of two massive bomb explosions outside the Palace of Justice in Central Damascus.
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Syrian fighters and civilians carry the shrouded body of Mohammed Ahmed Rahim during his funeral procession in Qorqania village. Mohammed, a 28-year old railway company employee, was shot in the head allegedly by a Syrian army sniper during an anti-government demonstration after the Friday prayers at Salah al-Deen neighborhood of Aleppo, north of Syria.
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Members of the Free Syrian Army's "Commandos Brigade" patrol near Qusayr, nine miles from the flashpoint city of Homs. Monitors say more than 13,000 people have been killed in the Syrian unrest that started with peaceful protests in March, 2011, before turning into an armed revolt, faced with a brutal crackdown that has cost dozens of lives each day.
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A Syrian woman cries as she carries her injured son who was shot in his hand by a Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria to Lebanon. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission announced. The announcement comes days after a massacre in Houla, in the central Homs province, when more than 100 people were killed.
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A Lebanese Red Cross volunteer treats a Syrian injured man who was shot in his leg by a Syrian border guard when he was crossing a river from Syria into Lebanon.
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Lebanese anti-Syrian regime protesters and supporters of the Islamic Groups, carry mock child corpses and chant slogans as they walk in front a Syrian revolutionary and Lebanese flag during a protest against the massacre of Houla, in the northern port city of Tripoli. The U.N. peacekeeping chief announced there are strong suspicions that pro-regime fighters were responsible for some of the 108 victims of a massacre in Syria, along with heavy weapons illegally fired by Syrian government forces.
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An injured Syrian woman who lost both legs is treated in a hospital by a nurse in Triopoli, Lebanon. Hassna, 37, was injured by Syrian forces, which killed her two children when they attempted to fleet their house on a motorcycle in a village in Homs province. Since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began, thousands of Syrian refugees who fled the violence now live in Lebanon, and many wounded Syrians are smuggled across the border for treatment in Lebanese hospitals.
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A Syrian rebel walks in Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs province, Syria.
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A Syrian firefighter extinguishes burning cars after two bombs exploded in Damascus, Syria.
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Syrian inspectors investigate a crater in front of a damaged military intelligence building where two bombs exploded in Damascus.
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Syrian security forces shout slogans as they inspect damages at the site of twin blasts in Damascus.
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An injured Syrian army soldier, who was wounded after a roadside bomb hit his military truck, is helped by a comrade in Daraa city, Syria. The explosion targeted the Syrian military truck just seconds after a team of U.N. observers passed by.
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New recruits participate in a parade as they join the ranks of the Free Syrian Army in the Syrian town of Qusayr. UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan announced that his top priority in violence-wracked Syria was to stop the killing to prevent the country from sliding into full-scale civil war.
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A Syrian man shot while smuggling medicine over the Lebanese border is carried into a field hospital in Qusayr.
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Syrian anti-regime protestors gather around UN observers in the village of Azzara in Homs province. Syria's parliamentary polls opened on May 7 against a backdrop of unrest, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says has killed more than 11,000 people since March last year.
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Syrian opposition gathers around UN observers as they show them an armored vehicle that was hit by regime forces in Homs province.
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Syrian rebels patrol in Qusayr. Syria's authorities and the opposition traded accusations over who was behind blasts that rocked Damascus and Aleppo on the eve of parliamentary polls designed to boost the regime's legitimacy.
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Destruction in the Bayyada district of the flashpoint Syrian city of Homs.
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UN observers don body armor upon their arrival in Hama city, central Syria.
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Burnt out wreckage of a Syrian military vehicle is seen at Al-Thawra street in central Damascus.
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A Syrian army tank patrols an area in the district of Al-Waar in the flashpoint city of Homs. Both sides in the Syrian conflict are violating a ceasefire as a rights group accused the regime of committing atrocities in the province of Idlib.
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The Syrian flag waves next to destruction in the Bab Amro neighborhood of Homs.
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A Syrian man stands in front of a building that was damaged after two bombs exploded near a military compound in the city of Idlib.
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Syrian investigators gather next to a damaged police bus that was attacked by an explosion in the Midan neighborhood of Damascus. A suicide bomber detonated across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital, killing several people and wounding 20.
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A Syrian man sits on the balcony of his destroyed house damaged from Syrian army forces shelling in Homs province.
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Syrians walk in an alley damaged from Syrian army forces shelling, at Bab Sbaa neighborhood in Homs province.
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Syrian refugees go about their daily lives at the Oncupinar refugee camp in Kilis, near the Syrian. Syria pounded protest hubs, despite mounting pressure from world powers.
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Syrians pray over the bodies of Syrian violence victims at a funeral in the northwestern town of Kafr Zeta.
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Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus. Syrian government shelling and offensives against rebel-held towns killed dozens of people across the country.
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Free Syrian Army fighters try to spot a sniper while fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus.
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This citizen journalist image obtained by the Associated Pres purportedly shows a mass burial of people allegedly killed in a recent shelling in Taftnaz.
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Syrian youth stand in a building damaged by tank shells in a neighborhood of Damascus, after a raid by Syrian troops killed several rebels and civilians.
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Syrians gather near a crater from a tank shell in a neighborhood of Damascus.
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Syrians walk through blood and debris in a neighborhood of Damascus, after a raid by Syrian troops killed several rebels and civilians.
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Syrian refugees walk across a field on the Syrian side of the border before crossing into Turkey at Reyhanli in Antakya.
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