Nov 20, 2014
For more than three years now, Syrians have endured the loss and
hardship caused by a protracted civil war. At the moment, Syrian
government forces are fighting several rebel groups spread throughout
the country, as well as ISIS, the militant group attempting to form a
new state carved out of Syria and Iraq. The smaller rebel groups are
fighting each other, and just about everyone in the region is fighting
ISIS, assisted by airstrikes carried out by a U.S.-led coalition.
Pockets of Damascus are stable enough for residents to carry on normal
lives, while some distant rural villages have been reduced to rubble.
Basic necessities are rare in contested areas, and refugee camps in
neighboring countries are still growing. Battles and attacks continue
across Syria among the many parties, with no clear end in sight—those
caught in the crossfire suffering most. Gathered here are images of the
ongoing Syrian conflict from just the past month.
[34 photos]
ISIS militants stand next to an explosion from an airstrike on Tilsehir
hill in Syria, near Turkish border, on October 23, 2014.
(Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) 
A man stands on a rooftop as he tries to find a signal for his cell
phone in the besieged rebel bastion of Douma, northeast of the Syrian
capital Damascus on October 26, 2014.
(Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images) #
Rebel fighters fire a cannon, locally known as the Hell Cannon, towards
government positions on October 24, 2014, in Handarat, on the northern
outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo. Syrian rebels fought fierce
clashes with loyalist troops in the divided area of Handarat just north
of Aleppo a day after fighting that killed 15 soldiers and pro-regime
militia as well as 12 rebels, said the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights.
(Sami Ali/AFP/Getty Images) #
Civilians inspect a site hit by what activists said was a missile fired
by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Kalaseh
neighborhood of Aleppo on October 28, 2014.
(Reuters/Hosam Katan) #
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush transits the Gulf of Aden in
this U.S. Navy handout picture taken October 23, 2014. The George H.W.
Bush Carrier Strike Group is returning to Naval Station Norfolk after
supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and
Syria.
(Reuters/U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Abe McNatt) #
A collection of airstrikes on the Syrian city of Kobani by the US-led
coalition, as seen from Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, throughout
October and November of 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its
surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic
State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish
fighters and coalition airstrikes. (Left-to-right,
top-row-to-bottom-row: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, Getty Images/Gokhan
Sahin,
AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach, AP Photo/Lefteris
Pitarakis, AP Photo/Vadim
Ghirda, Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach, AP
Photo/Levend Ali, Reuters/Yannis Behrakis, AFP/Getty Images/
Aris
Messinis, AFP/Getty Images/Aris Messinis, Reuters/Osman Orsal) #
A military aircraft circles above Kobani, Syria, seen from a hilltop on
the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, on October 23,
2014.
(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) #
A fighter of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) uses a pair of
binoculars as she looks towards areas controlled by Islamic State
fighters in the southern countryside of Ras al-Ain on November 9, 2014.
(Reuters/Rodi Said) #
Mustafa's father (center) cries hearing his son suffering as he helps a
doctor to stretch the boy's legs at a physical therapy center on
November 6, 2014 in Eastern al-Ghouta, a rebel-held region outside
Syria's capital of Damascus. Mustafa, 13, had his legs' tendons cut
after he was injured in an airstrike four months before. Medical care in
Syria has been disintegrated due to the ongoing conflict that erupted
in March 2011.
(Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images) #
Syrians try to rescue wounded people from a burning building following a
reported airstrike by government forces on the Kalasa neighborhood of
the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 12, 2014.
(Karam Al-Masri/AFP/Getty Images) #
Syrian Kurdish fighter Delkhwaz Sheikh Ahmad, 22, sits at his brother's
house in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, on October 17, 2014 as he
prepares to leave for Kobani, Syria, to rejoin the fighting. The father
of two is a member of the People's Protection Units, also known as YPG
and is fighting against ISIS militants in Kobani. Every few weeks, he
takes a couple of days to cross the border into Turkey to visit his
family that had evacuated.
(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) #
Workers wrap the bodies of dead fighters loyal to Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad at a morgue in Aleppo on October 30, 2014. The
opposition Free Syrian Army said it killed the men near Aleppo city and
that some of the dead had Iranian and Afghan nationalities. Rebels said
the bodies are being preserved so they can be used in exchange for their
own fallen comrades who are in the hands of the government.
(Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail) #
A Syrian man sells Aleppo sweets at al-Furqan popular market in the
government-controlled part of the northern city of Aleppo on November
15, 2014.
(Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images) #
Syrians dance at a night club in the government-controlled part of the northern city of Aleppo on November 15, 2014.
(Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images) #
A Syrian Kurdish refugee child from the Kobani area looks through a
ventilation hole of a tent at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria
border on November 19, 2014.
(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) #
A full moon rises over the Syrian city of Kobani on November 6, 2014.
(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) #
Men walk along a dark street at night in eastern al-Ghouta, near
Damascus on November 19, 2014. Residents in Eastern al-Ghouta have been
cut off from the main electricity grid for two years, activists said,
relying on generators and other sources of light at night.
(Reuters/Bassam Khabieh) #
ISIS billboards along a street in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is
controlled by the Islamic State, on October 29, 2014. The billboard
(right) reads: "We will win despite the global coalition".
(Reuters/Nour Fourat) #
Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the
streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province on June 30, 2014.
(Reuters/Stringer) #
A general view shows damage inside Shahba Mall, one of the largest
commercial shopping centers in Syria, that was targeted by what
activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in northern Aleppo countryside on October 16, 2014.
(Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail) #
A woman accompanies schoolchildren after what activists said were air
strikes by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma
neighborhood of Damascus on October 20, 2014.
(Reuters/Bassam Khabieh) #
An injured girl receives treatment at a field hospital after what
activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar
al-Assad in Meraba, eastern countryside of Daraa, on November 19, 2014.
(Reuters/Wsam Almokdad) #
Rebel fighters take up positions on the front line against forces of
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Handarat area, north of Aleppo,
on October 20, 2014.
(Reuters/Hosam Katan) #
Rebel fighters monitor control screens for any movement of regime
forces around the UNESCO-listed citadel where they hold a position on
November 3, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The
5,000-year-old citadel, which towers 100 meters above the rest of the
city, is now under the control of rebel fighters.
(Zein Al-Rifai/AFP/Getty Images) #
A man cuts the trunk of a tree to make a fire for cooking in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus on November 7, 2014.
(Reuters/Bassam Khabieh) #
A woman screams as she is rescued from a burning building following a
reported airstrike by government forces on the Kalasa neighborhood of
the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 12, 2014.
(Karam Al-Masri/AFP/Getty Images) #
The body of a Syrian boy lies in a makeshift clinic after a mortar
reportedly fired by Syrian government forces fell in the besieged rebel
town of Douma, northeast of Damascus, on November 11, 2014. Closing in
on Douma, a town of 200,000 residents under siege since last year, the
army has seized control of Mleiha and Adra and has set its sights on
Jobar and Ain Tarma, all towns to the east of the capital.
(Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images) #
An explosion following an air strike in central Kobani in Syria, on
November 17, 2014. Picture taken from the Turkish side of the
Turkish-Syrian border.
(Reuters/Osman Orsal) #
A general view shows the Zeno street front line in Aleppo on November
18, 2014. Sheets are hung to shield people on the street from being seen
by snipers.
(Reuters/Hosam Katan) #
Al-Mujahideen army fighters, which operates under the Free Syrian Army,
sit in shooting positions inside a damaged room during clashes with
forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on the Zeno street
front line in Aleppo on November 18, 2014.
(Reuters/Hosam Katan) #
Syrian children attend a class at the Nabaa Al-Hayat center for
education and psychological support for children in places undergoing
crisis in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the
capital, Damascus, on October 22, 2014. Overall, some 4,000 Syrian
schools have been destroyed, damaged or used to house the internally
displaced in three years of warfare, leaving the educational system on
the verge of ruin, said a report in May by the Damascus-based Syrian
Center for Policy Research in conjunction with the UN Development
Program and the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
(Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images) #
A rebel fighter runs through dust towards an area damaged by what
activists said were barrel bombs dropped by warplanes loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Shaar neighborhood on November
6, 2014.
(Reuters/Rami Zayat) #
People watch as smokes rises from the town of Kobani, on October 26,
2014, at the Turkish border near the southeastern village of
Mursitpinar.
(Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) #
A girl cries during the funeral of 19 year-old Syrian Kurdish fighter
girl Perwin Mustafa Dihap who died after being wounded during fighting
against ISIS forces in her home town of Kobani, in Suruc, on the
Turkey-Syria border, on November 7, 2014.
(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) #
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