Syrians take to the streets

Syrians have been protesting for more than a month asking President Bashar Assad to step down.

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In this image made from television, protestors are seen near a barricade in Daraa, Syria, Friday, April 8, 2011. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Daraa on Friday, a city in the south of Syria that has become a flashpoint for anti-government demonstrations.

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In this image made from television, demonstrators march in Daraa, Syria, Friday, April 8, 2011. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Daraa on Friday, a city in the south of Syria that has become a flashpoint for anti-government demonstrations

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April, 2, 2011

Syrian anti-Syrian regime protesters, holds posters and chant slogans calling for the Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down during a protest in front of Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan. The extraordinary wave of protests has proved the most serious challenge yet to the nearly five-decade rule of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, one of the most rigid regimes in the Middle East.

Nader Daoud / AP

April 2, 2011

A protester holds a cartoon depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Libya President Moammar Gadhafi, during a gathering in Paris to support Syria protests.

Francois Mori / AP

March 25, 2011

Syrians from Sheikh Maskeen region, southern Syria, head to Deraa to support protesters there. Protests spread across Syria, challenging the rule of the Assad family after their forces killed dozens of demonstrators in the south.

Khaled al-Hariri / Reuters

March 22, 2011

Syrian intelligence security forces patrol in the southern city of Daraa. Unlike the armies of Tunisia and Egypt, Syria's military will almost certainly stand by the country's leader as President Bashar Assad faces down an extraordinary protest movement.

Hussein Malla / AP

April 3, 2011

People walk at Hamidiyah market in the old city of Damascus. Syrian President Bashar Assad appointed a former agriculture minister to form a new government, part of a series of overtures toward reform as the country faces a wave of anti-government protests.

Bassem Tellawi / AP

March 25, 2011

Hundreds of Syrians march from the Omayyed mosque in the center of Damascus' Old City towards Souk Al-Hamadiyeh street chanting "Daraa is Syria" and "We will sacrifice ourselves for Syria."

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March 24, 2011

A picture taken under the supervision of Syrian security shows an elderly woman sitting oustide her house in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, hub for a week of anti-regime protests.

Anwar Amro / AFP/Getty Images

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