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Free Syrian Army soldiers gather Feb. 28, 2012, outside a house destroyed in fighting against President Assad's forces in Sarmin, north Syria. (Associated Press)
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A Free Syrian Army fighter takes a position Feb. 27, 2012, as the Syrian Army advances towards the town of Sarmin, Syria. (Associated Press)
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A Syrian rebel looks out after Syrian army tanks enter the northwestern city of Idlib, Syria, on Feb. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Anti-regime protesters hold up a Syrian army defector as they chant slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad during an evening protest in the Rastan area of Syria's Homs province on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Syrian army defectors stand guard on a rooftop to secure an anti-Syrian regime protest in the Deir Baghlaba area in Homs province, central Syria, on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, activists said Friday. (AP Photo)
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Syrian army defectors celebrate with the Syrian revolution flag shortly after they joined the anti-regime protesters in Homs province on Thursday, the same day Syrian troops stormed a suburb of Damascus as the 10-month uprising inches ever closer to the capital. "A fierce battle is taking place, and troops are shelling areas with heavy machine gunfire," an activist said. (Associated Press)
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With a child on his hip and a rifle in his hand, a Syrian army defector celebrates with comrades after they joined the anti-regime forces in Homs province. The Syrian government crackdown has killed more than 5,400 people since March.
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Syrian army defectors gather at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. President Bashar Assad's forces attacked Zabadani for six days, sparking fierce fighting that involved heavy bombardments and clashes with the defectors. (AP Photo)
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Riad al-Asaad heads a group of Syrian army defectors responsible for attacks against the regime. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) holds no territory, appears largely disorganized and is up against a fiercely loyal and cohesive military that will stop at nothing to protect the regime. (Associated Press)
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Syrian army positions are pictured on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, near the border town of Serhaniyeh, Lebanon, whose residents say troops have laid mines nearby over the past several days. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Syrian army soldiers carry the coffins of comrades killed in recent violence in the country during a funeral procession on Oct. 1, 2011, at the military hospital in Homs, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)
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Syrian army soldiers are seen reinforcing the village of Arida near Talkalakh opposite the Lebanon-Syria border, in Wadi Khaled, north Lebanon, on May 20, 2011. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this March 21, 2011, photo, Syrian army soldier steps out from the burned court building that was set on fire by Syrian anti-government protesters, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
