Syrians take to the streets

Tens of thousands of people are taking part in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

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July 8, 2011

Pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protester, shouts slogans and other holds up an anti-US placard as they protest against the visit of the US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford to the Syrian city of Hama, in front the US embassy in Damascus, Syria, on Friday July 8, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets of Hama on Friday, bolstered by a gesture of support from the American and French ambassadors who visited the city where a massacre nearly 30 years ago came to symbolize the ruthlessness of the Assad dynasty.

Muzaffar Salman / AP

July 8, 2011

Thousands of pro-regime Syrians wave their national flag during a rally in support of "national unity in Damascus on as Syrian security forces opened fire on anti-regime protests, killing at least 13 people.

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July 7, 2011

Syrian Ibrahim Jamal al-Jahamani, who was recently released from Syrian jail where he said he saw a 15-year-old boy tortured to death, speaks in an interview on the Syrian-Jordanian border. He points to his eyes, signaling that he saw the boy _ Tamer Mohammed al-Sharei_ beaten to death by his Syrian interrogators. Al-Sharei disappeared in the southern Syrian flashpoint town of Daraa on April 29, 2011. Al-Jahamani said he saw the boy at a compound run by Syria's powerful Air Force Intelligence and after his release witnessed the videos of the dead teenager that shocked many people in the Arab world.

Raad Adayleh / AP

July 5, 2011

A veiled female protester with a headband in the colours of the Syrian flag, takes part in an anti-Syrian regime rally near the Syrian embassy in Cairo, Egypt, as Syrian troops fired on residents who set up makeshift roadblocks to prevent the advance of tanks ringing the city of Hama, which has become a flashpoint of the uprising against autocratic President Bashar Assad, activists said.

Nasser Nasser / AP

July 3, 2011

An Arab demonstrator holds a Syrian flag in a demonstration to protest the military crackdown in Syria, in downtown Sao Paulo.

Nacho Doce / Reuters

July 1, 2011

A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows anti-regime youths throwing stones at security forces in the Damascus suburb of Qadam during protests against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Syrian security forces killed 28 civilians as more than half a million people rallied on Friday for Assad's ouster across the country, a human rights group said on July 2.

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July 1, 2011

A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian loyalists waving national flags and portraits of President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support Assad's regime in Damascus' main Hijaz Square. Syrian security forces killed 28 civilians as more than half a million people rallied on Friday for Assad's ouster across the country, a human rights group said on July 2.

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June 17, 2011

An image from a video uploaded by Ugarit News, a Syrian opposition Web site, shows anti-government protesters in Hama.

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June 11, 2011

Syrian nationals living in Lebanon hold up pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally to show their support for him.

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June 11, 2011

In this photo taken during a government-organized media tour, a Syrian boy near the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour displays some bullets.

Bassem Tellawi / AP

June 11, 2011

Pro-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad supporters hold his portraits and another of his late father and chant slogans as other groups nearby demonstrate to express solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters in front of the Syrian embassy in Ankara, Turkey.

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June 10, 2011

A supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime holds a portrait and chants slogans as he demonstrates with others in front of the Syrian embassy in Ankara, while other groups nearby demonstrate to express solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Syrian regime on June 10 of perpetrating an "atrocity" against demonstrators as a new offensive threatened to increase the flow of refugees crossing the border. It was Turkey's harshest reaction yet to the Syrian turmoil, which has forced nearly 3,000 people to seek refuge across the border in Turkey.

Adem Altan / AFP/Getty Images

June 10, 2011

Men protesting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime throw shoes at his portrait as they demonstrate in front of the Syrian embassy in Ankara.

Adem Altan / AFP/Getty Images

June 10, 2011

A pro-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad supporter holds a Syrian flag as other groups nearby demonstrate to express solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters in front of the Syrian embassy in Ankara.

Umit Bektas / Reuters

June 10, 2011

A supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is stopped by a plainclothes police officer as he tries to approach a group demonstrating to express their solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters.

Umit Bektas / Reuters

June 10, 2011

Pro-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad supporters hold his portraits and chant slogans as other groups nearby demonstrate to express solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters in front of the Syrian embassy in Ankara.

Umit Bektas / Reuters

June 10, 2011

Syrian opposition members and Turkish activists hold placards, posters and Syrian flags as they demonstrate outside the Syrian embassy in Ankara against the current Syrian regime.

Adem Alten / AFP/Getty Images

June 10, 2011

Protesters hold defaced posters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration to express solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters in front of the Syrian embassy in Ankara.

Umit Bektas / Reuters

April 22, 2011

In this photograph taken with a mobile phone, Syrian anti-government protesters take part in a demonstration in Banias.

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April 22, 2011

A photograph taken with a mobile phone shows Syrian anti-government protesters taking part in a nationwide Good Friday rally.

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April 17, 2011

In this citizen journalism image taken April 17 with a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Arabic writing on a burned car reads: "Pay attention, you are in Banias not in Israel. Down with the regime, the 'Shabiha' which is a term used in Syria to describe pro-government thugs."

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April 17, 2011

A boy of Syrian descent joins a peaceful rally in Sofia, Bulgaria, showing support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Valentina Petrova / AP

April 17, 2011

In this citizen journalism image taken with a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, words are seen written on the street in Banias by anti-government protesters.

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A Syrian protester flashes the victory sign during a demonstration in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down, April 17, 2011. The demonstrations come despite promises by Assad to end the widely despised state of emergency rule by next week at the latest, and implement other reforms following more than a month of unprecedented, and growing, demonstrations.

Nader Daoud / AP

In this image made from television, protesters are seen near a barricade in Daraa, Syria, Friday, April 8, 2011. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Daraa, 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.

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April, 2, 2011

Syrian anti-Syrian regime protesters hold posters and chant slogans calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down during a demonstration in front of the 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 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 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 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's Old City toward 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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