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The Syrian Conflict in Photos Photos Syrians return to the Juret al-Shayah district of the central city of Homs on May 10, 2014, after the last Syrian rebels left the city's neighborhood under an evacuation deal that hands the government a symbolic victory. AFP/Getty Images Syrian civilians return to their neighborhood in the old city of Homs, Syria on Friday, May 9, 2014, where bulldozers cleared rubble from the streets of battle-scarred districts in the central Syrian city after government troops entered the last rebel-held neighborhoods as part of an agreement that also granted opposition fighters safe exit from the city. AP photo A resident of the old city of Homs, Syria carries a photograph and a religious figurine after retrieving them on Friday, May 9, 2014. AP Photo Two Syrian national flags hang on a pole as government officials inspect damages in the old city of Homs, Syria, May 8, 2014. Hundreds of exhausted Syrian rebels withdrew from their last remaining strongholds in the heart of Homs, surrendering the city to President Bashar Assad, once the center of the revolt against him. AP Photo A photo of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is seen along a street in old Homs city, May 8, 2014. Syrian forces say they will take full control over Homs, a city once vibrant with pro-democracy crowds but now associated with images of ruin that epitomise the brutality of Syria's civil war. Khaled Al Hariri/Reuters Buses carrying Free Syrian Army fighters leave Homs, Syria, May 7, 2014. Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces.

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Page 1: The Syrian Conflict in Photos Photos

The Syrian Conflict in Photos Photos

Syrians return to the Juret al-Shayah district of the central city of Homs on May 10, 2014, after thelast Syrian rebels left the city's neighborhood under an evacuation deal that hands the government asymbolic victory.

AFP/Getty Images

Syrian civilians return to their neighborhood in the old city of Homs, Syria on Friday, May 9, 2014,where bulldozers cleared rubble from the streets of battle-scarred districts in the central Syrian cityafter government troops entered the last rebel-held neighborhoods as part of an agreement that alsogranted opposition fighters safe exit from the city.

AP photo

A resident of the old city of Homs, Syria carries a photograph and a religious figurine afterretrieving them on Friday, May 9, 2014.

AP Photo

Two Syrian national flags hang on a pole as government officials inspect damages in the old city ofHoms, Syria, May 8, 2014. Hundreds of exhausted Syrian rebels withdrew from their last remainingstrongholds in the heart of Homs, surrendering the city to President Bashar Assad, once the centerof the revolt against him.

AP Photo

A photo of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is seen along a street in old Homs city, May 8, 2014.Syrian forces say they will take full control over Homs, a city once vibrant with pro-democracycrowds but now associated with images of ruin that epitomise the brutality of Syria's civil war.

Khaled Al Hariri/Reuters

Buses carrying Free Syrian Army fighters leave Homs, Syria, May 7, 2014. Exhausted and worn outfrom a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels left their last remaining bastions in the heart ofthe central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces.

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Hundreds of rebel fighters and their families were evacuated from Homs, Syria Wednesday as partof a larger ceasefire deal. After nearly three years under rebel control, Syria's third largest city nowbelongs to forces loyal to Syrian President Assad. May 7, 2014 (Ghassan Najjar)

Ghassan Najjar

Syrian families await their turn to register at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR) center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, April 3, 2014. A teenager from centralSyria became the one millionth Syrian refugee to register in Lebanon on Thursday, a "devastatingmilestone" for the tiny Arab country with about 4.5 million people of its own, the U.N. refugeeagency said.

Bilal Hussein/AP Photo

Candles (Foreground) laid out in the shape of a map of the world and a projection (Background) of aBanksy image on Nelsons Column are pictured during a sound and light show in London's TrafalgarSquare on March 13, 2014, to mark the third anniversary of the conflict in Syria. Since thebeginning of the uprising in March 2011, the death toll is said to have surpassed the 60,000 mark.

CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images

People take part in a ceremony and candlelight vigil marking the third anniversary of the start of theviolent conflict in Syria, at Campidoglio in Rome, on March 14, 2014. Since the beginning of theuprising in March 2011, the death toll is said to have surpassed the 60,000 mark.

TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images

Activists hold red balloons during the 'With Syria' campaign to mark the third anniversary of thestart of the Syrian conflict at Federation Square in Melbourne, on March 14, 2014. Since thebeginning of the uprising in March 2011, the death toll is said to have surpassed the 60,000 mark.

Recep Sakar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Syrian refugee children fly heart-shaped balloons as candles spell out, "With Syria," marking thethird anniversary of the Syrian conflict, at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border, in Mafraq,Jordan, March 13, 2014. The Syrian conflict, now entering its fourth year, has killed more than140,000 people, sent more than 2.5 million fleeing for neighboring countries and destroyed entireblocks in opposition-held areas of the country.

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Mohammad Hannon/AP Photo

South Korean students hold candles for the children in Syria during a candle light vigil to mark thethird anniversary of Syria's uprising, March 15, in Seoul, South Korea, March 13, 2014. About 30students attend a candle vigil to demand the humanitarian support for children in Syria.

Lee Jin-man/AP Photo

Civilians walk at the Karaj al-Hajez crossing, a passageway separating Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr,which is under the rebels' control and Al-Masharqa neighborhood, an area controlled by the regime,March 13, 2014, in Aleppo, Syria.

Sultan Ketaz/Reuters

This picture taken on Jan. 31, 2014, and released by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency forPalestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), shows residents of the Palestinian camp of Yarmoukqueuing to receive food supplies in Damascus, Syria. A UN official is calling on warring sides inSyria to allow aid workers to resume distribution of food and medicine in a besieged Palestiniandistrict of Damascus. The call comes as U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged Syriangovernment to authorize more humanitarian staff to work inside the country, devastated by its 3-year-old conflict.

UNRWA/AP Photo

Smoke rises from buildings after what activists said was shelling from forces loyal to Syria'sPresident Bashar al-Assad in the besieged area of Homs, Syria on Jan. 15, 2014.

Thaer Al Khalidiya/Reuters

Residents carry an injured man that survived shelling after what activists said was an air strike fromforces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Takeek Al-Bab area of Aleppo on December 17,2013.

Saad AboBrahim/Reuters

A young Syrian refugee carries a blanket next to a tent in a makeshift refugee camp in the Lebanesevillage of Qaraoun in the Bekaa Valley, on December 12, 2013.

Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images

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Syrian refugee women stand in line to receive their families share of winter aid kits at Zaatarirefugee camp, near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan, Dec. 3, 2013.

AP Photo

Residents run from a fire at a gasoline and oil shop in Aleppo's Bustan Al-Qasr neighborhood, Oct.20, 2013, in Syria. Witnesses said it was caused by a bullet fired by a sniper loyal to Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad at the Karaj al-Hajez crossing, a passageway separating Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr,which is under rebel control, and the Al-Masharqa neighborhood, an area controlled by the regime.

Haleem Al-Halabi/Reuters

In this Oct. 03, 2013 photo, sons of Mohammed Kale rebuild a house wall damaged by a mortar shellthat landed days before at their family house in Kfar Lata, a ghost village at the top of a mountainsubdued under heavy shelling and bombardments due the fighting between opposition fighters andgovernment forces in the Idlib province countryside of Syria.

AP Photo

A member of the 'Ansar Dimachk' Brigade, part of the 'Asood Allah' Brigade which operates underthe Free Syrian Army, uses an iPad during preparations to fire a homemade mortar at one of thebattlefronts in Jobar, Damascus, Syria on September 15, 2013.

Mohamed Abdullah/Reuters

Rebel fighters duck as they run behind a barricade to avoid being fired at by Syrian regime forces inthe Old City's front line in Aleppo on September 18, 2013.

JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

A man mourning over one among many dead bodies after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired byregime forces, according to activists, in Douma City, Damascus, Syria, Aug. 21, 2013.

Media Office Of Douma City/AP Photo

This Aug. 21, 2013, file image provided by by Shaam News Network, which has been authenticatedbased on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show several bodies being buried during afuneral in a suburb of Damascus, Syria.

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Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013.

AP Photo

Syrian refugees cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Aug. 17,2013. Faced with brutal violence and soaring prices, thousands of Syrian Kurds have poured intoIraq's autonomous Kurdish region, seeking respite from fighting between Kurdish fighters andjihadists.

Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian youth dives into a swimming pool as people enjoy a day out in the northern city of Aleppo,July 12, 2013.

JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian girl crosses the street holding a bag in the centre of Syria's northeastern city of Deir Ezzor,June 28, 2013.

Abo Shuja/AFP/Getty Images

A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a cat bread in the old city of Aleppo, Syria on Jan. 6, 2013.

Andoni Lubaki/AP Photo

Dark clouds hang over buildings in Aleppo, Syria, Dec. 4, 2012.

Narciso Contreras/AP Photo

A father cries while holding his dead child in front of Dar al Shifa Hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 4,2012. The Syrian Army has continued to shell Aleppo and claims Al-Sakhour district is now clear ofmercenaries and terrorists.

Maysun/EPA

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Syria youths react following an airstrike by Syrian government forces in Maaret al-Numaan Oct. 18,2012.

Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

A masked opposition fighter poses inside the Shaar district police station in the northern Syrian cityof Aleppo after it was overrun by Free Syrian Army forces on July 25, 2012.

Pierre Torres/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian rebel fighter, Tawfiq Hassan, 23, a former butcher, poses for a picture, after returning fromfighting against Syrian army forces in Aleppo, at a rebel headquarters in Marea on the outskirts ofAleppo city, Syria, Aug. 26, 2012.

Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo

Syrians shout slogans during an anti-government demonstration after Friday prayers in the city ofBinnish in Idlib province on June 29, 2012.

AFP/Getty Images

Cars burn at the scene of two suicide bombs in al-Qazar residential area in Damascus, Syria, May10, 2012.

EPA

Syrian soldeirs celebrate in the al-Midan area in Damascus on July 20, 2012, Syria.

Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images

Ahmed, center, mourns his father, Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian Armysniper, during his funeral in Idlib, north Syria, March 8, 2012.

Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo

Syrian mourners, one carrying the pre-Baath national flag adopted by the rebel movement, carry the

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body of a youth reportedly killed in violence in the northwestern Idlib region before his burial, Feb.23, 2012. Three Syrian soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in a bomb at the southernentrance to the flashpoint city of Idlib , according to SANA news agency.

Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian rebels gather in front of the remains of a burnt military vehicle belonging to Syriangovernment forces destroyed by the rebels during clashes at Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homsprovince, Syria on Feb. 23, 2012.

AP Photo

Demonstrators hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in front of the Syrian embassy inSofia, in this April 17, 2011 file photo.

Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images

Syrians hold up a giant Syrian flag during a pro-regime demonstration in the western residentialDamascus suburb of Mezze, June 15, 2011, as embattled President Bashar al-Assad came underintense world pressure to halt a crackdown on democracy protests.

AFP/Getty Images

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