SYRIA : Album - 02

Syria : The Story in Pics - Album 02

Syrians by the thousands are fleeing the violence in their home country and seeking refuge in neighboring countries. Turkey this week is said to be considering a buffer zone in Syria to secure its own national security as well as aid fleeing civilians. Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq etc are some of the nations those are sheltering refugees those who have fled. 

Photography Credits :
   ASSOCIATED PRESS
    REUTERS
    AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ( AFP )
    EUROPEAN UNION PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION (EUPA )

A Syrian refugee takes Syrian currency from the customers at his shop at Al Za'atri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria on Feb. 21, 2013.

Syrian refugee women work at a second hand clothes shop at the Al Za'atri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq near the border with Syria on March 6. UNHCR said the number of Syrians leaving their country has increased dramatically since the beginning of the year with more than 400,000, nearly half the total, leaving since Jan. 1. Most have fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt and some to North Africa and Europe, arriving traumatized, without possessions and having lost relatives.

Friends carry an injured Syrian refugee inside their camp in Reyhanli, Turkey on March 20.

A wheelchair bound Syrian refugee waits outside the field hospital at the Red Crescent camp in Boynuyogun village, Hatay region on March 25.

Syrian refugee children play on swings at the refugee camp in Yayladagi on on March 26.

A Syrian family who fled the violence in Baba Amr neighborhood, in the flashpoint city of Homs, eats dinner in their room during a power outage at a school which is converted to a refugee center in the area of Wadi Khaled on the Lebanese-Syrian border northern Lebanon on March 15. 

Syrian refugees walk through woods helped by rebels from the Free Syrian Army as they attempt to cross the northwestern part of the Syrian border with neighboring Turkey, on March 18 a year after a revolt against President Bashar Assad’s regime erupted. 

A member of Free Syrian Army gives some food to a Syrian refugee family as they wait to cross to Turkey at the border between Syria and Turkey on March 26. 

A Syrian girl who fled the violence in Syria sleeps with a doll at a shelter housing refugees in the Lebanese city of Arsal in the Bekaa Valley on March 26. 

A refugee who fled the violence in Syria carries refreshments at her temporary home ahead of International Women's Day at the Al Hussein Palestinian refugees camp in Amman on March 7.

Syrian refugees receive blankets from a Qatari charity organization in Amman, Jordan on March 17.

Syrian refugees struggling to get some food in Iraq.

Syrian refugee woman and kid in Lebanon.

Refugee food camp in Turkey.

Refugees in Jordan.

A Syrian man carries his daughter, who was wounded in a bomb explosion, across the border into Turkey in September 2013.

A Syrian military solider fires a heavy machine gun during clashes with rebels in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria on Sept. 9.

Free Syrian Army fighters watch videos on a laptop as they rest in Aleppo 2013  September 13.

Syrian children carry their belongings as they enter Turkey with their families from the Turkish Cilvegozu border gate, located opposite the Syrian commercial crossing point Bab al-Hawa, in Reyhanli, Hatay province, September 6.

A Syrian refugee girl washes rice outside her tent at a temporary refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour, Bekaa valley near the border with Syria, Lebanon, on Sept. 11.

A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a position as he aims his weapon at the Justice Palace, which is controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo on September 13.

A wounded Syrian girl sits on a hospital bed at Ziv Medical Center in the northern Israeli town of Safed, September 9.

Palestinian mother Hadia al-Fut holds a photograph of her Syrian husband Mohammed, 27, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) who was killed during fighting in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on September 12, against rebels forces, including fighters of the Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist rebel group, who control 75 percent of the camp. 

Rebel fighters take position on a front line in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on September 11, 2012.

Members of the Free Syrian Army's Mugaweer (commandos) Brigade pay their respects in a cemetery in the town of Qusayr, that contains around 100 bodies of Syrians killed during the conflict, on May 12, 2012.

This citizen journalism image released by Sham News Network taken on June 9, 2012, purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners raising their hands as they carry the coffins of Syrian citizens killed by Syrian troops, in Daraa, Syria. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, tens died in heavy pre-dawn shelling on March 2011.

A Syrian woman holds an AK - 47 during an Anti-Bashar Assad protest after Friday Jumuah prayers on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, on June 8, 2012.

Protesters holding a banner and shouting slogans during a demonstration at the northern town of Kfar Nebel, in Idlib province, Syria, on June 8, 2012.

Members of the Free Syrian Army's "Freedom for the River Assi Brigade" run as they take part on an attack on Syrian regime forces in the village of Nizareer, near the Lebanese border in Homs province, on May 12, 2012.

Free Syrian Army fighters sit in a house on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on June 12, 2012. Syrian forces pelted the eastern city of Deir el-Zour with mortars as anti-government protesters were dispersing before dawn, killing several people, activists said. The offensives were part of an escalation of violence in recent weeks that has brought more international pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime faces over its brutal tactics against the opposition. The U.N. accused the government of using children as human shields in a new report.

Bodies of people that anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces lie on the ground at Ali Bin Al Hussein mosque in Huola, near Homs, on May 26, 2012.

Dead bodies of a man and child that anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces, are placed on a vehicle belonging to the United Nations observers' mission in Syria in Huola, on May 26, 2012.

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network, taken on June 8, 2012 purports to show a Syrians chanting slogans during a demonstration in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria.

An injured Syrian army soldier, who was wounded after a roadside bomb hit his military truck, is helped by a comrade, in Daraa city, Syria, on May 9, 2012.

A Syrian man carries a wounded girl next to Red Crescent ambulances following an explosion that targeted a military bus near Qudssaya, a neighborhood of the Syrian capital, on June 8, 2012.

Photograph provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on July 22, 2012, purports to show a fireball rising above Homs, Syria.

A body of a boy, who was killed by a recent Syrian Air force air strike, in the rubble of a house in the village of Tel Rafat, about 37 km north of Aleppo, on August 8, 2012.

A Syrian Air Force fighter plane fires a rocket during an air strike on the village of Tel Rafat, north of Aleppo, on August 9, 2012. Syrian troops and rebels fought over the country's biggest city Aleppo as President Bashar al-Assad's key foreign backer Iran gathered ministers from like-minded states for talks about how to end the conflict.

Opposition fighters prepare home-made firebombs in the northern Syrian city of of Aleppo where rebel forces overran the Shaar district police station, on July 25, 2012.

A Syrian man carries badly wounded five-year-old Mohammed Amumrej after he was hurt during shelling by Syrian government forces in the center of Syria's restive northern city of Aleppo late on July 25, 2012.

Residents pray over the bodies of Syrians who they say are opposition activists killed by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, during a mass funeral along a street in Jdeidet Artouz near Damascus, on August 1, 2012.

A Syrian boy looks at the bodies of nine Syrians in the back of a truck after they were found dead in an open field and taken to the town of Anadan, Syria, on August 6, 2012.

Rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters capture two policemen who the FSA allege are "Shabiha" or pro-regime militiamen, on July 31, 2012, as the rebels overran a police station in Aleppo. A watchdog said that rebels killed 40 officers and seized three police stations during the pivotal battle for the commercial capital.

Smoke billows over Damascus, Syria, on July 18, 2012. A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting in Damascus, killing three top regime officials - including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law -- in the harshest blow to Syria's ruling family dynasty and the rebels' boldest attack in the country's civil war.

A Free Syrian Army fighter screams in pain after his leg was injured by shrapnel from a shell fired from a Syrian Army tank in the Salaheddine neighborhood of central Aleppo, on August 7, 2012.

A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son get killed by a suicide bomber near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on October 3, 2012.

Syrian government forces look at bodies of alleged rebel fighters in a ditch beside a road leading to Aleppo's airport, after they were killed by Syrian government forces on October 2, 2012.

A fighter with the Free Syria Army fires his weapon during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo's Izza neighborhood, on September 9, 2012.

A wounded woman, still in shock, leaves Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, on September 20, 2012. Two months into the battle for Syria's largest city, civilians are still bearing the brunt of the daily assaults of helicopter gunships, roaring jets and troops fighting in the streets.

A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a rest in a hole on a building during an attack on Syrian Army positions in Aleppo, on September 25, 2012.

A Syrian rebel waits to be treated for his wounds at a hospital in the Sheikh Fares district of Aleppo, on September 18, 2012.

Medics carry Fatima Qassim, 6, whose legs were badly injured after government forces fired on her family's car, to the emergency room in a hospital in Aleppo, on September 11, 2012.

A Free Syrian Army soldier throws a petrol bomb toward Syrian Army positions in Aleppo's Saif Al Dawle district, on October 3, 2012.

A Syrian man wheels a woman severely injured from an artillery shell that landed near a bakery, to a hospital for treatment in Aleppo, on October 23, 2012. Several were killed and a dozen were injured after the artillery shell that landed near a bakery in Aleppo.

Pic 1 of 4 - Free Syrian Army members fire on a man they suspect to be from the pro-government forces during a combing operation in Harem town, Idlib Governorate, on October 26, 2012.

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Dead bodies lie in the middle of a road ten kilometers from the northeastern Syrian city of Aleppo, on October 12, 2012. A rebel offensive killed more than 100 soldiers in two days, in an attack on an army post in southern Daraa province of Syria.

A shoe, glued to the mouth of a statue of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, at the museum of Maaret al-Numan, in Idlib province, an area under the control of rebel fighters, on October 17, 2012.

Members of the Free Syrian Army take up a position during a truce on the top of a hilly mountain in the Kurdish area of al-Qaftal, overlooking the town of Azaz, on October 31, 2012.

A man is treated for wounds after a Syrian government forces jet attacked the Karm al-Aser neighborhood in eastern Aleppo, on October 31, 2012.

Rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al-Fatah keep an eye on an enemy position from a school building during skirmishes with the Syrian army in the nearby Bustan Al-Pasha front line in Aleppo, on October 30, 2012.

Pic 1 of 5 - A Syrian civilian tries to escape the line-of-fire after he was targeted by a Syrian army sniper, He get shot twice on stomach and his friends crawling on pavement to save him. Later his colleagues with his deadbody, Alleppo 20 October 2012.

Syrian youths walk past graffiti in the rebel-held Syrian city of Minbej on October 10, 2012.

A woman hugs her daughter who was injured in an explosion in Hai al-Wuroud, as they wait in a hospital in Damascus, on November 6, 2012.

Members of the Free Syrian Army use a catapult to launch a homemade bomb during clashes with pro-government soldiers in the city of Aleppo, on October 15, 2012.

A family member squeezes air into the lungs of an eight-year-old girl who was fatally wounded by a the machine gun of a Syrian government forces' jet at the Karm al-Aser neighborhood of eastern Aleppo, on October 31, 2012.

A sniper line-of-fire, seen through the scope of a rebel fighter's gun in the Karm al-Jebel neighborhood in Aleppo, on November 2, 2012.

Kurdish anti-Syrian government activists parade the streets in celebration for the official declaration of liberation of the city of Derik, near al-Malikiyah, on November 15, 2012.

Mannequins are erected to distract snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Khan al-Wazeer district, on December 16, 2012.

A Free Syrian Army fighter photographs inside a mosque damaged by shells fired by Syrian Army in the Haresta neighborhood of Damascus, on January 29, 2013.

FSA fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall in Damascus, on January 30, 2013.

Syrian rebels prepare to launch a bomb using a homemade slingshot in the northern city of Aleppo, on October 16, 2012.

Syrian rebels launch a missile near the Abu Baker brigade in Albab, Syria, on January 16, 2013.

A man works on an improvised mortar shell for the Free Syrian Army inside a factory which previously manufactured steel and iron in Aleppo, on February 18, 2013.

A Syrian rebel uses a videogame controller to activate the machine gun of Sham 2, a homemade armored vehicle made by the rebels' Al-Ansar brigade, in Bishqatin, 4 km west of Aleppo, on December 8, 2012.

A member of the Free Syrian Army lies down on a bed next to weapons inside a house in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla district, on August 29, 2012.

A Free Syrian Army fighter holds the head of a mannequin up to a hole in a wall of a Syrian Army base to attract and locate a sniper during heavy fighting in the Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus, on February 3, 2013.

Damaged buildings in Jouret al-Shayah, Homs, Syria, on February 2, 2013.

A group of Syrian Free Army activists inspect a damaged mosque at the Sheikh Yassine district area in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, on February 16, 2013.

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, injured Syrians sit on the ground while flames and smoke rise from burned cars after a huge explosion that shook Damascus, on February 21, 2013.

Destroyed buildings and streets filled with debris in Homs, on February 19, 2013.

Damaged cars are piled up, used as cover from snipers in the Khaldiyeh area of Homs, on February 19, 2013.

Destroyed buildings along streets filled with debris in Homs, on February 19, 2013.

A painting of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad riddled with bullet holes, on the facade of the police academy in Aleppo, after it was captured by Free Syrian Army fighters, on March 4, 2013.

Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire at a factory after what activists say was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at al-Haidariah area in Aleppo, on February 8, 2013.

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke and fire rises after explosives were dropped by a Syrian government warplane in Yabroud near Damascus, Syria, on May 20, 2013.

A damaged statue of Bassel Al-Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, in Raqqa province, eastern Syria, on April 25, 2013.

An improvised mortar, with a projectile fashioned from a gas cylinder, placed by Free Syrian Army fighters in Binnish, in Idlib province, on April 17, 2013.

On March 1, 2013 image provided by Associated Press, shows a Syrian child, injured by heavy bombing from military warplanes, in the town of Hanano in Aleppo, Syria.

In this citizen journalism image released on May 2, 2013 by a group that calls itself The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man, center, identifies dead bodies, who were killed according to activists by Syrian forces loyal to Bashar Assad, in Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria.

Girls play on a swing in a damaged street full of debris in Deir al-Zor, on May 21, 2013.

Mohammad, 11, a Syrian refugee boy who was injured during the conflict in Syria, sits in his wheelchair at a post-traumatic care center directed by Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations (UOSSM) in Hatay province, Turkey, on May 3, 2013. Turkey is now sheltering more than 300,000 Syrians who have fled the fighting in their homeland, most of them in camps along the 900-km (560-mile) frontier.

On Tuesday March 19, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian victim who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receives treatment by doctors, at a hospital in Aleppo. The purported instances in which chemical weapons have been used in Syria have been relatively small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein's 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq. That raises the question of who would stand to gain as President Bashar Assad's regime and the opposition trade blame for the alleged attacks and definitive proof remains elusive.

Relatives visit a grave at the Shi'ite fighters cemetery in Sayeda Zainab area in Damascus, on May 27, 2013.

A damaged church in Qusayr, on June 5, 2013. Syrian troops and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies captured the border town after a grueling three-week battle, dealing a severe blow to rebels.

A man attempts to harvest wheat from a field on fire, which activists said was caused by shelling carried out by forces loyal to the Syrian regime, in Ma'arat Masrein, north of Idlib, on June 6, 2013.

Syrian men rush a heavily wounded man to hospital in Saraqeb in northwestern Syria after a barrel bomb dropped by an air force helicopter exploded less than 10 meters away from his car on July 20, 2013.

Dead bodies of Syrian rebels lie on the ground, killed during an ambush by Syrian forces near the Damascus suburb of Adra, on August 7, 2013. Syrian government forces killed more than 60 rebels Wednesday in the ambush near Damascus.

Jordanian chefs and Syrian refugee workers prepare food for distribution to refugees at the Mrajeeb Al Fhood refugee camp, 20 km (12.4 miles) east of the city of Zarqa, on April 29, 2013. The Mrajeeb Al Fhood camp, which cost seven million dinars ($9.9 million) with funding from the United Arab Emirates, has received about 2,500 Syrian refugees so far, according to the Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates.

Syrian civilians flee the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on April 12, 2013.

A Syrian family travels to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa in Hatay province, on October 10, 2012. Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with screaming children clinging to their necks, crossed Orontes, a narrow river marking the border with Turkey as they fled the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages. Residents from the Turkish village of Hacipasa, nestled among olive groves, helped pull them across in small metal boats.

Syrians who fled their homes struggle to get pillows and blankets distributed at a camp for displaced Syrians, in the village of Atmeh, Syria, on December 10, 2012.

A man teaches Bilal, 11, how to use a toy rocket-propelled grenade in Idlib, northern Syria, March 4, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.

Here is a set of photographs by Goran Tomasevic of Reuters when he spend 18 days with Syrian Rebels Free Syrian Army fighters.

Here is a set of photographs when government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad used nerve gas to attack rebels but victims includes women and children on 21 August 2013.

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