Photos: Children of the war in Syria
March 13, 2013
A man carries a child who was wounded after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo February 20, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A Syrian refugee boy holds bread at the Boynuyogun refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province February 8, 2012.REUTERS/Murad Sezer ( TURKEY-SYRIA/PICTURES )
A Syrian refugee boy points a plastic toy pistol at a man in a Mickey Mouse costume on the first day of Eid al-Adha at a park in Beirut October 26, 2012. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, marking the end of the haj, by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi ( LEBANON/ )
A Free Syrian Army fighter pulls a boy off the street as a sniper fires during fighting with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad in Aleppo city December, 31, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A Syrian refugee woman gives her child a shower in the kitchen of an abandoned school in Wadi Khaled area, northern Lebanon September 28, 2011. More than 3,800 displaced Syrian refugees have registered with the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) in north Lebanon, which borders Syria's Homs province, a particularly bloody centre of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir ( LEBANON-SYRIA/REFUGEES )
A Syrian boy stands in front of a damaged armored vehicle belongingREUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah ( SYRIA/ )
A Syrian family cross to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa in Hatay province October 10, 2012. Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with screaming children clinging to their necks, crossed Orontes, a narrow river marking the border with Turkey as they fled the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages. Residents from the Turkish village of Hacipasa, nestled among olive groves, helped pull them across in small metal boats. REUTERS/Osman Orsal ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Sawssan Abdelwahab, who fled Idlib in Syria, walks with her children outside the refugees camp near the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern city of Yayladagi February 16, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ( TURKEY-SYRIA )
Syrians jump over barbed wire as they flee from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, November 9, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer ( SYRIA-CRISIS/REFUGEE )
A girl waves a Syrian opposition flag during a protest against Syrian President Bashar al Assad in Al Qusayr February 27, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic ( SYRIA )
A child walks in a house damaged after heavy shelling by government forces in Sermeen near the northern city of Idlib February 28, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ( SYRIA )
Children chant slogans during a demonstration against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in in Hazzano, Idlib province March 2, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ( SYRIA )
A doctor at a makeshift hospital displays a bullet removed from the hand of a young girl wounded during what protesters said was an attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, at the Khalidiya neighbourhood in Homs March 8, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer ( SYRIA/ )
A window, broken by a stray bullet from clashes between the Syrian army and the rebels on Monday, is seen at a refugee camp named "Container City" in the province of Kilis April 13, 2012. REUTERS/Umit Bektas ( TURKEY-SYRIA/REFUGEES )
Shams al-Mohamad, a 6-year-old Syrian girl, lies on a stretcher as she looks at her sister Marwa at a hospital in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, June 14, 2012. According to their mother, Shams and Marwa were wounded when a shell hit their house during fighting between Syrian troops and anti-government forces in the Syrian town of Qusair. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim ( LEBANON/ )
A Syrian refugee girl plays in a playground at a refugee camp named "Container City" on the Turkish-Syrian border in Oncupinar in Kilis province, southern Turkey July 3, 2012. REUTERS/Osman Orsal ( TURKEY/ )
Syrian girls and their father, injured during violence in their country, are seen after undergoing multiple reconstructive surgeries at the Red Crescent Hospital in Amman July 3, 2012. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji ( JORDAN-SYRIA/ )
Girls queue to buy bread at the only bakery serving the outskirts of Idlib province August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ( SYRIA/ )
A boy carries bread bought at a local bakery to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Azaz city, some 47 km (29 miles) north of Aleppo, August 21, 2012. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A boy sits at his parents' house, damaged by shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Talbiseh, near Homs August 31, 2012. REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Children play on a tank that belonged to pro-government forces in an area controlled by the Free Syrian Army in Idlib Governorate, October 21, 2012. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih ( ( SYRIA-CRISIS )
A boy makes preparations in a cave under his house to be used as a shelter in Kafruma, an area in the province of Idlib October 26, 2012. Picture taken October 26, 2012. REUTERS/Giath Taha ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Moayed, a 9-year old Syrian refugee boy, lies over cotton clumps as the other Syrians work in a cotton field in the village of Bukulmez on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 3, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. In early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cotton pickers. Picture taken November 3, 2012. REUTERS/Murad Sezer ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Children hang from the barrel of a tank, which was captured by the Free Syrian Army, as it is repaired in Azaz city, north Aleppo, December 30,2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A child watches men dig graves for future casualties of Syria's civil conflict at Sheikh Saeed cemetery in Azaz city, north of Aleppo December 30, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A girl looks up to the sky after hearing the sound of shelling as she sits on a toy pony in the playground of Al-Tawheed school in Aleppo January 1, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Um Jaafar, a woman fighter in the Free Syrian Army, sits with her husband Abu Jaafar, a Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights) battalion commander, and her daughter Faten at their home in Aleppo February 12, 2013. Um Jaafar was a women's hairdresser before the revolution and after being trained by her husband, she is now a member of a Sawt al-Haq battalion on the frontline of Aleppo's Sheikh Saeed neighborhood. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Syrian children and women arrive in Dabbabieh in northern Lebanon, near the Lebanese-Syrian border May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim ( LEBANON/ )
A girl who returned from school cries upon seeing her house destroyed after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo February 20, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Syrian refugee girls attend class at the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border February 27, 2013. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
People run upon hearing a nearby plane bombing during a protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the al-Katerji Tariq district in Aleppo February 22, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Syrian boys walk shoulder to shoulder in the rain at the Boynuyogun refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province February 8, 2012. There are 1,750 Syrian refugees living in the camp which was set up by the Turkish Red Crescent. The Turkish Foreign Ministry says there are currently some 10,000 Syrian refugees living in six different camps in Turkey. REUTERS/Murad Sezer ( TURKEY-SYRIA/ )
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