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The Free Syrian Army Military defectors and civilians make up Syria’s main opposition army group.
June 7, 2012
Free Syrian Army members raise their weapons during a training session on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
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June 7, 2012
Free Syrian Army members train with their weapons on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
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June 7, 2012
Free Syrian Army members train on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
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June 7, 2012
A Free Syrian Army officer chants slogans during a training session on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
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June 7, 2012
Free Syrian Army members fire at targets as they train on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
June 7, 2012
Free Syrian Army members ride a motorcycle as they train on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
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June 7, 2012
A Free Syrian Army soldier holds a weapon as he takes part in a training session on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
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June 5, 2012
Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants pose with children in the town of Kfar Nubul, in the northwestern province of Idlib. Clashes with rebels in Syria's western Latakia province killed 22 soldiers that day, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, bringing the day's death toll to at least 47.
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June 4, 2012
Rebel fighters from the Free Syrian Army check an armored vehicle that they said was captured from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Al Attarib, near Aleppo.
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May 26, 2012
Members of the Free Syrian Army speak to United Nations observers (in blue helmets) in Houla, near Homs. U.N. observers in Syria have confirmed that artillery and tank shells were fired at a residential area of Houla on May 25, killing at least 108 people, including many children, the U.N. chief reported in a letter to the Security Council.
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May 26, 2012
At Ali Bin Al Hussein mosque in Houla, members of the Free Syrian Army and a person believed to be a member of the U.N. observers mission in Syria survey the bodies of children whom anti-government protesters say were killed in an artillery barrage by government security forces.
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May 18, 2012
Members of the Free Syrian Army, holding their guns, attend an anti-regime demonstration in the city of Mareh in Aleppo province. Repression persists in Syria despite a truce officially established on April 12 and the presence of hundreds of U.N. observers there to monitor it.
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March 22, 2012
Members of the rebel Free Syrian Army gather inside their quarters in the town of Binnish, in the restive northern province of Idlib.
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March 17, 2012
A fighter with the Free Syrian Army, whose members have found refuge in the mountains close to Janoudia village in Idlib province, assembles a homemade bomb.
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March 17, 2012
A rebel fighter rests in an old storehouse in the mountains close to Janoudia village, in Idlib province.
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March 13, 2012
This image taken from AP Television shows rebel fighters during a patrol to assess the positions of Syrian government forces in Idlib province.
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March 16, 2012
A rebel fighter and his steed in Shatouria village, near the Turkish border in northwestern Syria. The rebel forces are facing a concerted government offensive aimed at definitively crushing the year-old uprising.
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March 11, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters are seen amid smoke from tank shelling during a day of fierce fighting with government forces in Idlib province. The rebels have been heavily outgunned against government forces.
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March 11, 2012
Rebel fighters celebrate after hearing that their comrades destroyed a Syrian army tank in the city of Idlib. In the previous days, troops had encircled Idlib, and tank shells pounded the city from dawn until evening.
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March 11, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters plant a roadside bomb to destroy a Syrian army tank during a day of fierce fighting with government forces in Idlib.
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March 11, 2012
Rebel fighters cry after receiving news that at least four of their comrades died during clashes with government forces in Idlib.
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March 11, 2012
Rebel fighters pause in between fierce firefights with government forces in Idlib.
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March 4, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters pose for a portrait at their headquarters in Idlib, north Syria.
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Feb. 7, 2012
Members of the Free Syrian Army train outside Idlib, Syria.
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Feb. 22, 2012
A member of the Free Syrian Army looks through his binoculars as he takes position with comrades in Idlib in northwestern Syria. Two foreign journalists were killed as Syrian forces pounded the rebel city of Homs, activists said, while calls mounted for a truce to allow in humanitarian aid.
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Feb. 23, 2012
Members of the Free Syrian Army move weapons, medicine and personnel across a river near al-Janoudiyah, in the Idlib province of Syria.
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Feb. 22, 2012
Members of the Free Syrian Army take position in Idlib in northwestern Syria.
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Feb. 22, 2012
A slice of bread and a tomato sit next to rocket at a position manned by Free Syrian Army rebels in Idlib.
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Feb. 24, 2012
Free Syrian Army members secure an area during an anti-regime protest in the center of Idlib in northwestern Syria.
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Feb. 10, 2012
This satellite image provided by Digital Globe shows the center of Homs, Syria where activity between the Free Syrian Army and the Syria military has been reported.
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Feb. 24., 2012
Khacem Abdel Luhab, an officer in the Free Syrian Army, smokes next to his machine gun before attending a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Kafar Taharim, northern Syria.
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March 3, 2012
Children attend the funeral of three Free Syrian Army fighters in a park converted to a cemetery in Idlib, north of Syria.
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March 1, 2012
A woman stitches a red star on a old Syrian flag used by the Free Syrian Army in Qusayr.
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