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 society’s most religious people have suddenly come to rule over some of its most socially liberal.

Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.

Members of the Syrian government’s 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 Syria’s west-central city of Hama on Wednesday.

Yevgenia Berkovich, left, and Svetlana Petriychuk inside a courthouse in Moscow in May. The two are being tried on charges of terrorism relating to the production of their play, “Finist the Brave Falcon.”

The funeral of a victim of Wednesday’s terrorist bombing in Kerman, on Friday in Tehran.