From Syria in Ruins, one of 38 photos. A member of the Free Syrian Army sits on a sofa in the middle of a debris-strewn street in Deir al-Zor, Syria, on April 2, 2013. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
The Biggest Story in Photos. In Focus is a news photography blog from The Atlantic online, updated nearly every day.
April 5, 2013
February 20, 2013
From DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels, one of 38 photos. Syrian rebels prepare to launch a bomb using a homemade slingshot in the northern city of Aleppo, on October 16, 2012. Lightly-armed Syrian rebels who face the warplanes, artillery and tanks of loyalists have turned to making their own weapons, even rigging a video game controller to fire mortar rounds. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)
January 31, 2013
From Intense Battle Scenes From Damascus, one of 21 photos. Here, Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall in Damascus, on January 30, 2013. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
December 19, 2012
From Syria’s Long, Destructive Civil War, one of 40 photos. Smoke rises in the Hanano and Bustan al-Basha districts in the northern city of Aleppo as fighting continued through the night, on December 1, 2012. A large rebel force launched an offensive on one of the few army bases in northwestern Syria still in the hands of loyalist forces and as fighting near Damascus closed the main road to the airport. (Javier Manzano/AFP/Getty Images)
November 8, 2012
From Syria in Ruins, one of 48 photos. A rebel fighter fires a gun toward a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Assad are hiding, while they attempt to gain terrain against the rebels during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria, on November 4, 2012. The uprising against Assad started with peaceful demonstrations in March last year, but has since morphed into a bloody civil war. Activists say more than 36,000 people have been killed in 19 months of fighting. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)
October 4, 2012
From Destruction Comes to Aleppo, one of 36 photos. A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on October 3, 2012. Three suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in a government-controlled area of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people, leveling buildings and trapping survivors under the rubble, state TV said. More than 120 people were injured, the government said. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
August 14, 2012
From Syria, ‘on the Verge of Collapse’, one of 39 photos. Here, a Free Syrian Army fighter carries an RPG launcher during clashes with Syrian troops near Idlib, Syria, on June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
June 14, 2012
From Syria’s Civil War, one of 39 photos. Here, birds fly over a destroyed minaret of a mosque at the northern town of Ariha, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, on June 10, 2012. An estimated 14,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March last year. (AP Photo)
March 23, 2012
From Deadly Stalemate in Syria, one of 39 photos. Here, Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib, Syria, on March 10, 2012. Aida’s husband and two of her children were killed in the attack. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
February 27, 2012
From Syria’s Long, Bloody Uprising, one of 39 photos. Here, a Syrian boy stands in front of a damaged armored vehicle belonging to the Syrian army in a street in Homs, on January 23, 2012. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)
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