Rebel fighters gather in the Salaheddin district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused western nations of blaming Syria's President Bashar al-Assad of staging chemical weapons attacks without proof.

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A man carries the body of a child allegedly killed by a pro-government forces sniper in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. At least 115,206 people have been killed in Syria's devastating 30-month conflict, most of them fighters from both sides.

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Rebel fighters duck as they run behind a barricade to avoid being fired at by Syrian regime forces in the Old City's front line in Aleppo.

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Life appears normal in a street scene with wedding dresses on display at a fashion shop in the Tariq Al-Bab district in Aleppo. While the world is debating the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, ordinary people in war-torn Aleppo are struggling to make their living despite security worries, terror threats and an increasing food and water supply shortage.

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Abu Mohammad, 39, holds a home made rocket inside his gun shop in the Fardos district of Syria's northern city of Aleppo. While most Syrians get poorer with every day of war, Aleppo's main gun seller Abu Mohammad is doing just fine by selling firearms, including rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and even swords.

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A dummy dressed up in army fatigue and a mask depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is erected in the Salaheddine neighborhood of Aleppo, the scene of heavy fighting. Saudi Arabia and Egypt called for a peaceful solution to the conflict roiling Syria, but said the terms of a settlement to end the bloodshed there must be defined by the Syrian people.

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Syrian men leave the old city of Aleppo. The revolution against Syrian President Bashar Assad that began in March 2011, started with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations recent estimate.

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A street controlled by government forces is seen through a sniper in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo.

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Men help a wounded civilian after a mortar attack in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo.

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People gather around destroyed buildings after airstrikes that targeted Aleppo.

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Syrians stomp on a portrait during a demonstration in the neighborhood of Bustan Al-Qasr in Aleppo.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter displays a damaged ordinance in Aleppo. Two explosions struck the main university in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, causing an unknown number of casualties, state media and anti-government activists said.

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Syrians stand in rubble of the damaged university building caused by an explosion in Aleppo.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a cat some bread in the old city of Aleppo.

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Syrians walk past damaged homes during heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army rebels and government forces in Aleppo.

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A Syrian man runs for cover during heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army rebels and government forces in Aleppo.

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Syrians are silhouetted as they walk on an Aleppo street on Nov. 29.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter in position in Aleppo.

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Syrian rebels celebrate amid the remains of a Syrian government fighter jet that was reportedly shot down over Daret Ezza on the border between the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo on Nov. 28.

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Two Syrian rebels take sniper positions in the heavily contested neighborhood of Karmal Jabl in central Aleppo.

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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 in a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo.

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A rebel fighter claims for victory after he fires a shoulder-fired missile toward a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Assad are hiding while they attempt to gain terrain against the rebels during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo.

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Syrian women and children run to the basement of a building housing several rebel fighters as regime tanks and helicopters attack their positions in Aleppo.

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A rebel fighter walks among the debris of damaged residential buildings after several days of intense fighting between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in the Karm al-Jebel neighborhood in Aleppo.

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A sniper line-of-fire is seen through the scope of a rebel fighter's gun in the Karm al-Jebel neighborhood in Aleppo.

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A wounded Syrian civilian lies in the street with a shot to his stomach as he tries to escape the line-of-fire after he was targeted by a Syrian army sniper while walking near the frontline in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo.

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Free Syrian Army fighters carry a civilian away from the line-of-fire after he was shot twice, in his stomach and back, by a Syrian army sniper while walking near the frontline in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo.

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A wounded Syrian youth sits on the back of a truck carrying victims and wounded people to hospital following an attack by regime forces in the northern city of Aleppo.

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Free Syrian Army fighters advance towards Syrian Army positions by passing through holes between adjoining houses during an operation in the Amariya district of Aleppo.

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A Syrian woman is evacuated after being wounded in shelling by regime forces in the Shaar neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo.

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An old woman, wounded during a Syrian Army artillery shelling, is carried into Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo.

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A Syrian man cries over the death of his father, who was killed during a government attack in the Sha-ar neighborhood of Aleppo.

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A wounded boy, who lost part of one leg in a Syrian Army artillery shelling, is transported home in a truck after been treated by doctors in Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Aleppo.

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A man, wounded during a Syrian regime strike on a civilian apartment block, walks out of the rubble in the Sha-ar neighborhood of Aleppo.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter at Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo comforts a child wounded by Syrian Army artillery shelling. The Aleppo rebellion started off in the rural areas of Aleppo province, not in the city as was the case in most other parts of Syria. Regime forces punish the city daily with artillery and air strikes.

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Syrian rebels take cover during clashes with regime forces at the Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Aleppo hours before the Syrian army retook control of the complex.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter illuminates the body of an unknown man, killed by Syrian Army artillery shelling, in the cemetery of Aleppo, before burying it in a common grave. As casualties mount, Aleppo's few operating hospitals struggle to cope with the number of victims, mostly civilians, caused by several months of fighting between the government's forces and Syrian rebels.

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Debris from buildings damaged by a triple car bombing covers a street at Saadallah al-Jabri Square.

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A woman hides her face and clutches her daughter during an air strike by government planes near her home in the Ahad neighborhood.

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Free Syria Army fighters are reflected in a mirror they use to spy on a a Syrian army post only 50 meters away in the Old City of Aleppo.

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A Free Syria Army soldier shoots blindly through an apartment window during a skirmish with government forces in the Saif al-Dawle district.

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A man holds his son, killed when he was caught in the cross fire between government and rebel forces, in front of Dar al-Shifa hospital.

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A Syrian man holds a torn picture of President Bashar Assad and his family he found in the rubble of a building destroyed in a government airstrike on the outskirts of Aleppo.

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A woman holds a bouquet of flowers and rebel flag during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo.

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A suspected pro-Assad police officer sits uneasily between a pair of anti-government rebels following his arrest in Aleppo.

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A rebel fighter is treated at the Dar al-Shifa hospital.

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A Free Syria Army fighter frets over one of his wounded comrades outside the Dar al-Shifa hospital.

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A young Syrian girl, driven with her family from their home by the fighting, flashes the victory sign at a refugee camp in Azaz near the Turkish border.

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A Syrian man works at a bakery in the in Saif al-Dawle neighborhood.

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Syrian children search for metal and plastic to sell in a pile of rubble.

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A Free Syria Army fighter winds up to throw a Molotov cocktail against Syrian government troop positions in the Saif al-Dawle district.

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A Free Syria Army fighter runs after attacking a tank with a rocket-propelled grenade in the Izaa district,

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Emergency medical workers carry a child injured in government shelling of rebel-controlled areas of Aleppo.

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A man cries next to the body of his friend killed near Dar al-Shifa hospital.

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A woman is stricken with grief after discovering the body of her brother in the street near Dar al-Shifa hospital.

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Syrian rebels help a wounded comrade who survived a Syrian army strike outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo.

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Police and residents inspect the damage where three car bomb exploded in Aleppo, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens.

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An anti-Assad fighter carries a sandbag to help shore up a rebel position during clashes with government forces in Aleppo.

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