Crisis in Syria: Violence continues between rebels and Syrian government forces [GRAPHIC CONTENT]

Jan 30, 2013

Crisis in Syria: Violence continues between rebels and Syrian government forces [GRAPHIC CONTENT]

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment World Syria

The Syrian cities of Aleppo and Homs remain under siege as government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad try to route out Syrian rebels. Record numbers of refugees are fleeing the violence and bombings in Syria, overwhelming refugee camps in neighboring Turkey and Jordan.

: A Free Syrian Army fighter gestures in front of a burning barricade during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Free Syrian Army fighters take position just before they were hit by Syrian Army sniper fire during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. The fighter on the right died soon after, while his comrade was wounded. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Free Syrian Army fighters lie on the ground as they are shot by sniper fire in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. The fighter on the right dies soon after, while his comrade was wounded. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter drags his comrade who was shot by sniper fire during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. The fighter died soon after. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A wounded Free Syrian Army fighter cries after hearing that his friend died in a mission in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A masked Free Syrian Army fighter smokes during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover in Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus January 19, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall during heavy fighting in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 30, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Syrian rebels launch a missile near the Abu Baker brigade in Albab, 30 kilometres from the northeastern Syrian city of Aleppo, on January 16, 2013. Universities were closed across Syria to mark a day of mourning called after twin blasts tore through an Aleppo campus while students were writing exams, killing at least 87 people. (Elias Edouard/Getty Images)

: A boy carries a mattress as Syrian refugees go about their daily business in theZa’atari refugee camp on January 29, 2013 in Mafrq, Jordan. Record numbers of refugees are fleeing the violence and bombings in Syria to cross the borders to safety in northern Jordan and overwhelming the Za’atari camp. The Jordanian government are appealing for help with the influx of refugees as they struggle to cope with the sheer numbers arriving in the country. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

: New Syrian refugees arrive at the International Organization for Migration at the Za’atari refugee camp on January 30, 2013 in Mafrq, Jordan. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

: Refugees from Syria collect blankets and supplies from the UNHCR as they arrive at the Za’atari refugee camp on January 30, 2013 in Mafrq, Jordan. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

: A woman carries a gas canister as Syrian refugees go about their daily business in the Za’atari refugee camp on January 30, 2013. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

: Fighters from the Free Syrian Army’s Tahrir al Sham brigade fire back at Syrian army during heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus January 26, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Fighters from the Free Syrian Army’s Tahrir al Sham brigade look out of a window before they fire at Syrian Army during a heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus January 25, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Syrians look for survivors amidst the rubble of a building targeted by a missile in the al-Mashhad neighborhood of Aleppo on January 7, 2013. The United Nations recently denounced a “proliferation of serious crimes including war crimes” in Syria, as ever more horrifying images and videos emerge from the country. (Getty Images)

: A rebel fighter stands next to the body of a man killed after a missile targeted a building in the al-Mashhad neighborhood of Aleppo on January 7, 2013. The United Nations recently denounced a “proliferation of serious crimes including war crimes” in Syria, as ever more horrifying images and videos emerge from the country. (Getty Images)

: A Syrian man stands in the debris following an explosion outside Aleppo University, between the university dormitories and the architecture faculty, on January 15, 2013. Fifteen people were killed and dozens of others injured in a blast that rocked Aleppo University, the top academic institution in northern Syria’s embattled city, said a monitoring group. (Getty Images)

: A Syrian man stands next to the bodies of executed men on the side of a canal in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 29, 2013. The bodies of at least 68 unidentified young men and boys, all executed with a single gunshot to the head or neck, were found in the Quweiq River, which separates the Bustan al-Qasr district from Ansari in the southwest of Aleppo, in a rebel-held area where a Free Syrian Army captain said many more were still being dragged from the water. (JM Lopez/Getty Images)

: Men search for their relatives amongst the bodies of Syrian civilians executed and dumped in the Quweiq river, in the grounds of the courtyard of the Yarmouk School, in the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo on January 30, 2013. Syria’s opposition charged that “global inaction” was giving Bashar al-Assad’s regime a license to kill, a day after dozens of young men were found shot execution-style in the city of Aleppo. (JM Lopez/Getty Images)

: Residents attempt to identify bodies found along a river at a school used as a field hospital in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr January 29, 2013. At least 65 people, apparently shot in the head, were found dead with their hands bound in a district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, activists said. Opposition activists posted a video of a man filming at least 51 muddied male bodies alongside what they said was the Queiq River in the rebel-held Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo. (Zain Karam/Reuters)

: A man walks in front of a burning building after a Syrian Air force air strike in Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus January 27, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A man passes by buildings destroyed by Syrian air force air strikes in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus January 17, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: An internally displaced woman looks out of a tent in a village outside Damascus January 29, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: An internally displaced boy looks out of a tent at a village outside Damascus January 29, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Fighters from the Free Syrian Army’s Tahrir al Sham brigade carry a wounded fighter through a hole in a wall during heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus January 26, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A view of damaged buildings in Jouret al-Shayah, Homs January 29, 2013, in this picture provided by Shaam News Network. (Thair Al-Khalidieh/Shaam News Network/Handout)

: An unexploded mortar shell fired by Syrian Army is seen in Mleha suburb of Damascus January 25, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Free Syrian Army fighters walk in the rubble of buildings destroyed by Syrian Army air strikes in the Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus January 24, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter stands in front of the building destroyed by Syrian Army air strikes in the Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus January 24, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A girl walks past buildings destroyed by Syrian air force air strikes in Duma neighborhood, Damascus January 23, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A fighter from the Sadik unit of Free Syrian Army’s Tahrir al Sham brigade fires his Draganov sniper rifle from inside a house during heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus January 22, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: Fighters from the Sadik unit of Free Syrian Army’s Tahrir al Sham brigade look at Syrian soldiers’ position from inside a house during heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus January 22, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A fighter from Fateh al Sham unit of the Free Syrian Army runs across a street in Haresta neighborhood of Damascus January 20, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A Member of the Free Syrian Army prays in front of weapons in a streets of Aleppo January 21, 2013. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his rifle before opening fire at Syrian Army soldiers in the Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus January 18, 2013. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

: A wounded child sits on a stretcher as he is treated in a temporary medical center after he was injured during a shelling by forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad, in Aleppo January 10, 2013. The graffiti behind reads: “Liberate Meng (area)”. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

: Children sit on school benches at Al-Tawheed school in Aleppo January 1, 2013. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

: Free Syrian Army fighters smoke waterpipes near the Menagh military airport, in Aleppo’s countryside January 25, 2013. (Mahmoud Hassano/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a cat in the old city of Aleppo January 6, 2013. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

: A Free Syrian Army Fighter, covered with blood, walks along a street after what activists said was a missile attack by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, at the souk of Azaz, north of Aleppo, January 13, 2013. (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

: A Syrian girl rides her bicycle in an almost deserted street in the Teshrin neighborhood of the Qabun area in Damascus on January 3, 2013. US troops began arriving in Turkey to man Patriot missile batteries against threats from neighboring Syria, where the 21-month conflict between the regime and rebels has escalated. (Omar Al-Khani/Getty Images)

: 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 on January 5, 2013. 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. (Getty Images)

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