Syria civil war

The civil war has killed an estimated 70,000 people, displaced more than four million and turned neighbor against neighbor, with civilians paying the price in the nation's two-year-old conflict. More than 6,000 people were killed in the Syrian civil war in March alone, according to a leading activist group.

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United Nations observers embrace upon arrival in Damascus, Syria from Homs, as they prepare to depart the country, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. Intense fighting on Monday between rebels and Syrian regime forces killed several people, including two children and two women in the southern city of Daraa, two rights groups said. The fighting comes on the second day of Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, ... more
United Nations observers embrace upon arrival in Damascus, Syria from Homs, as they prepare to depart the country, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. Intense fighting on Monday between rebels and Syrian regime forces killed several people, including two children and two women in the southern city of Daraa, two rights groups said. The fighting comes on the second day of Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, and a day after the United Nation's new envoy to Syria acknowledged that he had no concrete ideas to end the conflict. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman) less