Syria Civil war in Photos

A rebel runs to avoid sniper fire from Syrian government forces in Aleppo on Thursday, April 11.

A female rebel monitors the movement of Syrian government forces in Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsud neighborhood on April 11

A man stands in the remains of a house following a reported airstrike by the Syrian air force in Aleppo on Monday, April 15.

Men inspect damage at a house destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo on April 15.

Syrian and Kurdish rebel fighters walk in the Sheikh Maqsud district of Aleppo on April 14.

A Syrian boy holds an AK-47 assault rifle in the streets of Aleppo on Sunday, April 14.

People walk past destroyed houses in the northern Syrian town of Azaz on Sunday, April 21. 

A Kurdish fighter from the "Popular Protection Units" (YPG) takes position inside a building in the majority-Kurdish Sheikh Maqsood area of Aleppo, on Apri. 21.

Free Syrian Army fighters take positions prior to an offensive against government forces in the Khan al-Assal area, near Aleppo on Saturday, April 20.

Searchers use a flashlight as they look for survivors among the rubble created by what activists say was a missile attack from the Syrian regime, in Raqqa province, Syria, on April 25. 

Searchers excavate rubble in a building damaged by what activists say was a missile attack from the Syrian regime in Raqqa province, Syria on April 25.

A handout photograph from Syria's national news agency SANA shows damage and debris from a mortar attack in the suburb of Jarmana near Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, April 24. The attack killed seven and wounded more than 25, according to activists and state media. No group claimed responsibility for the mortar fire, which SANA said hit a municipality office and a school building.

Free Syrian Army fighters stand on a back of a truck as one of them holds an antiaircraft gun, next to a cluster-bomb shell in Raqqa province, east Syria, on April 26

A smoke cloud rises from shelling on the the al-Turkman mountains in Syria's Latakia province on Thursday, April 25.

Syrian Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar, third from right, visits the site of a blast in Damascus on Tuesday, April 30. The Syrian government said that at least 13 people died in what state-run TV described as a "terrorist explosion." Tensions in Syria first flared in March 2011, escalating into a civil war that still rages. This gallery contains the most compelling images taken since the start of the conflict.

Cleaning takes place following another explosion in an upscale Damascus neightborhood on Monday, April 29. Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survived the bombing targeting his motorcade.

A man covers a bloodstain with a newspaper at the blast site in Damascus on April 30.

A Syrian rebel walks past a destroyed building in Salma in the coastal province of Latakia on Friday, April 26.