In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, shakes hands with worshippers at a mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Fighting raged near a military base in Syria's north as a cease-fire in the bloody civil war was supposed to go into effect Friday at dawn, activists said, illustrating the difficulty of enforcing even a limited truce coinciding with a Muslim holiday. (AP Photo/SANA)