A mother mourns the loss of her child . Ahmed was shot by a Sniper from the Syrian Army while walking on the roof of his house in Taftanaz, northwestern Syria. February 2012
Thousands attend the funeral of Abdul, the bus driver who was killed by a Syrian Army Sniper in the city of Taftanaz, outskirts of Idlib. February 2012
People carry the body of the bus driver, killed by a Syrian Army sniper, during his funeral
Two unidentified kids mourn their father , during his funeral in Idlib, north Syria. Their father was killed by a Syrian Army sniper while driving the bus from Idlib to Taftanaz. Syria’s uprising was not destined to be quick. Instead, the largely peaceful protest movement that spread across the nation slowly turned into an armed insurgency and eventually a full-blown civil war. More than 130,000 people have been killed, and more than 2 million more have fled the country