Photos: Syrian Uprising Reaches Second Anniversary
March 15, 2013
FILE - Syrian rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid unit pose for photo in the Karmal Jabl neighborhood after several days of intense clashes between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A man points a flashlight toward the body of a Syrian man killed from Syrian Army shelling at a graveyard in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian solider flashes the victory sign as he is thrown in the air during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/ Muzaffar Salman, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Ahmed, center, mourns his father Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian Army sniper, during his funeral in Idlib, north Syria, Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover in a building during clashes against the Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian man cries outside the Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, after his daughter was injured during a Syrian Air Force strike over a school where hundreds of refugees had taken shelter Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Hamza Mansour, secretary general of the Islamic Action Front, joins Syrians living in Amman, Jordan, for their Ramadan prayers in front of the Syrian embassy, as they call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A defected Syrian policeman, Adnan al-Hamod, 33, lights a kerosene lamp at an underground cave used for shelter from Syrian government forces shelling and airstrikes, at Jirjanaz village, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Free Syrian Army fighter runs after attacking a tank with a rocket-propelled grenade during fighting in the Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Sept 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Free Syrian Army soldier, right, looks through a mirror that helps him see Syrian troops from the other side, as he takes his position with his comrade during fighting, at the old city of Aleppo city, Syria, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian refugee boy peers from a tent in a camp in Boynuyogun, Turkey, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Injured Syrian women arrive at a field hospital after an air strike hit their homes in the town of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian boy, who fled his home with his family due to fighting between the Syrian government troops and the rebels, lies on the ground under a mosquito net as he and his family take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center top, greets lawmakers before his speech at the Parliament in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. (AP Photo/SANA, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad waves a Syrian flag as she looks over a crowd gathered to show support for their president in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Free Syrian Army fighter displays a damaged ordinance in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian man holds bullets he picked from the wall of a damaged house in the town of Atareb, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - People help a wounded Free Syrian Army fighter during heavy clashes with government forces at a military academy besieged by rebels north of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Birds fly over the destroyed minaret of a mosque in the northern town of Ariha, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, Sunday, June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian rebel stands next to a flaming tire while firing at a Syrian army checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, March 17, 2012. (AP Photo/File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian man reacts next to his brother, who was seriously wounded during a violence between security forces and armed groups in Latakia, northwest of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, March 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian municipality worker extinguishes a burned court room that was set on fire by Syrian anti-government protesters, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A rebel sniper aims at a Syrian army position, seen with another rebel fighter reflected in a mirror, in a residential building in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Displaced Syrian children play in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - 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, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Free Syrian Army fighters ride a motorbike to approach Syrian Army tanks in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A woman holds her daughter on the balcony of her building damaged by Syrian Army bombings in central Idlib, north of Syria, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a position as the Syrian Army advances toward the town of Sarmin, Syria, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib, north Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2012. Aida's husband and two of her children were killed after their home was shelled. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Free Syrian Army fighters swim in a pool on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (AP Photo/File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Motorists drive past damaged buildings in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian family who fled from the violence in their village, sit in a tent at a displaced camp, in the Syrian village of Atma, near the Turkish border with Syria, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - The wife of Mohammed Halak slumps in a chair next to his body as she mourns the death of her husband, killed during fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and the Syrian Army in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - Bullet holes are seen in a window in Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Clashes between pro- and anti-Syria gunmen in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli left two people dead and 12 wounded in the latest skirmish between Lebanese factions over the crisis in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
FILE - A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son, killed by the Syrian Army, near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) ( Syria Photo Gallery )
Syrians living in Jordan step on a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his father Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad during a protest marking two years since the start of the uprising, in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
A Syrian girl living in Jordan, with her face painted with the Syrian revolutionary flag, attends a protest marking two years since the start of the uprising, in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )
Protesters shout slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest marking two years since the start of the uprising, at Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho Doce ( SYRIA-CRISIS/ )