1. SYRIA_ Battle for Aleppo

2. Battle for Aleppo intensifies Syrian conflict
With 200,000 fleeing Aleppo, fighting in Syria intensified in the 16-
month long struggle opposing the rule of Bashar al-Assad. While
fighting still grips Homs after a brutal siege, the conflict has moved
north to finally include commercial hub Aleppo - largely spared until
now - a city of over two million. Both the Syrian army and the rebel
Free Syrian Army claim advances in the battle for Aleppo, which
began in earnest over the weekend. More pockets of conflict rage in
other locations within Syria as well. Gathered here are images made
available in the last week from Syria, where independent news
coverage has been limited and difficult. Some of the images are from
third parties and transmitted without confirmation via international
wire services as they were received. - Lane Turner (32 photos total)

3. A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad burns during
clashes between rebels and Syrian troops in Selehattin, near
Aleppo, on July 23, 2012. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages)

4. Doctors treat a wounded child allegedly injured by Syrian government
forces shelling, at a field hospital in Qusayr on July 14, 2012. (Syrian
opposition Shaam News Network/AFP/GettyImages) #

5. Syrian men line up to buy bread at the only open bakery left in Al-Bueda on July 23, 2012.
(Antonio Pampliega/AFP/GettyImages) #

6. A Syrian rebel enters a house in Selehattin, near Aleppo, on July 23, 2012, during fighting
between rebels and Syrian troops. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

7. Syrian rebels hunt for snipers after attacking the municipality building in the city center of
Selehattin, near Aleppo, on July 23, 2012. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

8. Syrians run for cover as a helicopter hovers over Aleppo on July 24, 2012.
(Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

9. A Syrian girl lies on top of luggage at a makeshift refugee
camp inside Iraq after crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at
Albu Kamal-Qaim, the main border post between the two
countries, July 24, 2012. (Saad Shalash/Reuters) #

10. Syrian rebels break their fast with the iftar meal during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in
the northern city of Aleppo on July 24, 2012. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

11. A girl pauses on a street in Homs
on July 25, 2012. (Yazen
Homsy/Reuters) #

12. Fighters from the Syrian opposition rest in a former primary school in Aleppo on July 25, 2012.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged the world "to stop the slaughter." (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

13. The mother of Usame Mircan, who was allegedly killed by a Syrian government sniper, mourns over his body
with family and friends in Aleppo on July 25, 2012. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

14. Civilians take cover as fighters from the Syrian opposition clash with forces loyal to President
Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo on July 25, 2012. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

15. Free Syrian Army opposition fighters detain policemen after overrunning the Shaar district
police station in Aleppo on July 25, 2012. (Pierre Torres/AFP/GettyImages) #

16. A Syrian man carries badly wounded five-year-old Mohammed Amumrej after he
was hurt during shelling by Syrian government forces in the center of Aleppo late
on July 25, 2012. The boy later died. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

17. Opposition fighters prepare home-made firebombs in Aleppo where rebel forces overran
the Shaar district police station on July 25, 2012. (Pierre Torres/AFP/GettyImages) #

18. Syrian people leave the city center after shelling by Syrian government forces in Aleppo late on
July 26, 2012. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

19. Members of a Syrian refugee family walk through the Domiz refugee camp in the northern Iraqi of province
Dohuk on July 25, 2012. The number of refugees that have fled to Iraq's Kurdistan region exceeds 11,000.
(Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters) #

20. A Syrian refugee family
rests inside at the Domiz
refugee camp in Dohuk
province in Iraq on July 25,
2012. (Thaier al-
Sudani/Reuters) #

21. A Syrian refugee girl looks out from behind the fence at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay
province, near the Turkish-Syrian border, on July 27, 2012. (Umit Bektas/Reuters) #

22. Syrian mourners bury the body of a man killed in violence in Binnish in the northeastern
province of Idlib on July 26, 2012. (Syrian opposition Shaam News Network/AFP/GettyImages) #

23. Women react at the graves of their
sons, whom activists say were killed
by forces loyal to Syria's President
Bashar Al-Assad, in a cemetery in
Homs on July 27, 2012. (Syrian
opposition Shaam News
Network/Reuters) #

24. A man mourns over the body of a person
allegedly killed during bombardment by
government forces in Qusayr, near Homs,
on July 27, 2012. (Syrian opposition Shaam
News Network/AFP/GettyImages) #

25. Syrian Kurds stand in the street in Jinderes, near Aleppo, on July 22, 2012, as Kurdish activists on the Syria-
Turkey border started taking control of towns in the area without encountering much resistance from the
forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages) #

26. A Free Syrian Army member takes position while people flee after hearing shelling in the Aleppo
district of al- Sukkari on July 29, 2012. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) #

27. Free Syrian Army members interrogate a man who was arrested while stealing from vacant
houses in Aleppo on July 29, 2012. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) #

28. A Free Syrian Army member walks past the body
of what they say is a member of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad's shabiha militia in
the Aleppo district of al-Sukkari on July 29,
2012. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) #

29. Girls walk on debris next to damaged buildings in Marat al-Numan near the northern province of
Idlib on July 27, 2012. (Syrian opposition Shaam News Network/Reuters) #

30. Fighters carrying food supplies run for cover along a street in the Salaheddin district of Aleppo
on July 29, 2012. (Pierre Torres/AFP/GettyImages) #

31. Syrian rebel fighters celebrate on top of a tank captured from government forces at a checkpoint in the
village of Anadan, near Aleppo, on July 30 2012, after a 10-hour battle. The strategic checkpoint of Anadan
secures the rebel fighters free movement between the northern city of Aleppo and Turkey. (Iskandar
Kat/AFP/GettyImages) #

32. A rebel fighter aims his rifle in the Salaheddin district of Aleppo on July 29, 2012. (Pierre
Torres/AFP/GettyImages) #

33. A Free Syrian Army
member stands near a
destroyed Government
army truck in Attarib, on
the outskirts of Aleppo
province July 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
People ride past a
destroyed building during
clashes between Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad's
forces and the Free Syrian
Army in Attarib, on the
outskirts of Aleppo
province July 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

34. A destroyed tank of Syrian
President Bashar al Assad's forces
is seen after clashes with the Free
Syrian Army in the Rasten area,
near Homs July 29, 2012.
REUTERS/Fadi Zaidan
A Free Syrian Army
member stands by his
anti-aircraft machine
gun during their patrol
in Attarib, on the
outskirts of Aleppo
province July 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra

35. A damaged tank of Syrian President
Bashar al Assad's forces is seen after
clashes with the Free Syrian Army in
the north of Rasten bridge, near
Homs July 29, 2012.
REUTERS/Fadi Zaidan
A destroyed tank of Syrian
President Bashar al Assad's
forces is seen after clashes
with the Free Syrian Army in
the north of Rasten bridge,
near Homs July 29, 2012.
REUTERS/Fadi Zaidan

36. A burnt bus which belonged to
forces loyal to Syria President
Bashar Al Assad is seen at
Aleppo's district of al Sakhour
July 29, 2012.
REUTERS/Shaam News
Network/Handout
A boy walks past an anti-
aircraft machine gun
belonging to Free Syrian
Army members in Attarib, on
the outskirts of Aleppo
province July 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

37. A girl walks past a shop which was
destroyed during clashes between
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's
forces and the Free Syrian Army in
Attarib, on the outskirts of Aleppo
province July 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
A woman carries her child
while walking through the
rubble in Attarib, on the
outskirts of Aleppo
province July 30, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

38. Free Syrian Army members patrol Attarib, on Damaged buildings are seen at Marat al-
the outskirts of Aleppo province July 30, Numan near the northern province of Idlib
2012. July 27, 2012. Picture taken July 27, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

39. A Free Syrian Army member shows a shell A member of the Free Syrian Army carries
which he said was fired by Syrian President ammunition as he prepares for their patrol in
Bashar al-Assad's forces in Attarib, as a boy Attarib, on the outskirts of Aleppo province
watches, on the outskirts of Aleppo province July 30, 2012.
July 30, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

40. Damaged buildings are seen at Al-Assali A man poses near a damaged Syrian army
neighbourhood in Damascus July 28, tank in the Damascus suburb of al-Tel July 28,
2012. 2012. Picture taken July 28, 2012.
REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

41. A destroyed Syrian army tank is seen in the A damaged building is seen in Deraa
Damascus suburb of al-Tel July 28, 2012. July 28, 2012.
REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout REUTERS/Shaam News
Network/Handout

42. A damaged vehicle is seen at Deraa July 28, Damaged buildings are seen in Al-Rasten near
2012. Homs July 27, 2012.
REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

43. Demonstrators hold
opposition flag during a
protest against Syria's
Demonstrators burn Presient Bashar Al-
a photograph of Assad at Yabroud near
Syria's President Damascus July 27,
Bashar al-Assad 2012.
during a protest at REUTERS/Shaam News
Yabroud near Network/Handout
Damascus July 27,
2012.
REUTERS/Shaam
News
Network/Handout
Demonstrators hold
opposition flag during a
protest against Syria's
Presient Bashar Al-
Qusayr, near the Lebanon
Assad at Yabroud near
border and close to the
Damascus July 27,
restive city of Homs, has been
2012.
savaged by artillery
REUTERS/Shaam News
bombardments from
Network/Handout
government forces.

46. A woman walks through
rubble from a building
destroyed by shelling from
forces loyal to Syrian
President Bashar Al-Assad
in downtown Aleppo
August 1, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevi

48. Men run during shelling by forces loyal
to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in
downtown Aleppo August 1, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

49. Free Syrian Army fighters
take a break from fighting
with forces loyal to Syrian
President Bashar Al-Assad
in downtown Aleppo
August 1, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
A Free Syrian Army fighter is
wounded during a fight with
forces loyal to Syrian A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his
President Bashar Al-Assad in gun during a fight with forces loyal to
downtown Aleppo August 1, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in
2012. downtown Aleppo August 1, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

50. A Free Syrian Army fighter
holds his gun during a fight
with forces loyal to Syrian
President Bashar Al-Assad in
downtown Aleppo August 1,
2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

51. Members of Free Syrian Army
stand with their injured
comrade after evacuating him
from Aleppo on the outskirts
of Idlib province August 1,
2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

52. A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his RPG
during a fight with forces loyal to Syrian
President Bashar Al-Assad in downtown
Aleppo August 1, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
A member of the Free Syrian Army flashes
the victory sign on a captured tank after
taking control of a checkpoint from
government forces in Anadan, north
Aleppo, July 31, 2012.
REUTERS/Obeida Al Naimi

53. A member of the Free
Syrian Army fires his
weapon at a sniper
position during clashes
with forces loyal to
President Bashar Al-
Assad in Aleppo's
district of Salah Edinne
July 31, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra

54. A member of the Free Syrian Army
fires his weapon at forces loyal
President Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo's
district of Salah Edinne, July 31, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

55. A man cycles past a
destroyed Syrian Army
compound in Azaz,
north of Aleppo, August
3, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
A boy plays with
an AK-47 rifle
owned by his
father in Azaz,
north of Aleppo,
August 3, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic

56. A sniper from the Free Syrian
Army takes position in Aleppo,
July 29, 2012.
REUTERS/Obeida Al Naimi
A building burns after
shelling at Aleppo's
district of al Sukkari,
July 29, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra

57. A boy climbs onto a destroyed
Syrian Army tank in front of a
mosque destroyed during clashes
in Azaz, north of Aleppo August 3,
2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
A man looks at a destroyed Syrian
Army tank in Azaz, north of Aleppo,
August 3, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

58. A Free Syrian Army fighter
gestures during a fight with forces
loyal to Syrian President Bashar
Al-Assad in downtown Aleppo
August 1, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
A Free Syrian Army member walks at a
checkpoint on the outskirts of Aleppo, July
29, 2012.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra