
A view of Aleppo, Syria, where a suicide bomber struck on Wednesday.

A view of Aleppo, Syria, where a suicide bomber struck on Wednesday.

A police patrol in the old city of Damascus, Syria, in April. Under the new authorities, some of Syrian societyβs most religious people have suddenly come to rule over some of its most socially liberal.

Members of the Syrian governmentβs security forces in the capital, Damascus, on Thursday.

Members of the new Syrian government set up security checkpoints in Homs in February. Many Syrians are demanding more such controls.

Syrian antigovernment fighters pouring into the city of Hama on Friday.

Syrian rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad heading toward the strategic city of Homs.

An antigovernment fighter covers his ears as a multi-barrel rocket launcher fires against government forces, in the northern outskirts of Syriaβs west-central city of Hama on Wednesday.