Conflicts in Syria dragging on into its .twentieth violent month
An elderly woman crosses a street next to a long black cloth used to separate the area from Syrian government forces' sniper fire
Children clean up their classrooms in a school damaged during fighting
A refugee from one of the provinces of Idlib cooks in front of her tent in a refugee camp in Atimeh
Children play on swings in Aleppo
Free Syrian Army fighters dance in a house during a break in the fight in Aleppo
A man reacts in pain after being shot by a sniper for a second time as he waits to be rescued
Free Syrian Army fighters launch a home-made bomb using a catapult during clashes in Aleppo
Syrian detainees, who were arrested over participation in protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime
A wounded Syrian youth sits in the back of a truck carrying wounded people to hospital
A girl who was injured in a car bomb that exploded in Daf al-Shok district lies in a hospital in Damascus
A rebel fighter fires a gun toward a building occupied by Syrian troops in the Jedida district of Aleppo on November 4, 2012.
Members of pro-government forces look out from a cell in Haram Prison, where they are detained by the Free Syrian Army
A rebel sniper aims at Syrian army positions in Aleppo's Jedida district on October 29, 2012.
A Syrian rebel fighter aims fire through a hole in the wall that overlooks a position held by loyalist troops in the Citadel of Aleppo's Old City on October 28, 2012.
A man makes his way through the rubble of a damaged building in Wadi Al-Sayeh district in Homs on October 17, 2012.
Kamal, the father of an eight-year-old girl who was fatally wounded along with his son Hamed (sitting at left on background), cries while being treated in a local hospital
A family member squeezes oxygen into the lungs of an eight-year-old girl who was fatally wounded.
A father of a man who killed in conflicts
Buildings in besieged Homs slump following shelling on October 7, 2012.
A rebel fighter signals victory after he fires a shoulder-fired missile toward a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Assad were hiding