Free Syrian Army fighter Mohammad Jaffar, also know as Anadan, 17, kisses the Koran in Aleppo's Bustan Al Basha district, Oct. 22, 2012. When his family fled to Turkey in July he decided to stay in Aleppo to fight along side the Mutasm Bellah Katiba. Sebastiano Tomada / Sipa USA
Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War -- Time
More than a year ago, Arab Spring–inspired protests kicked off in the impoverished Syrian agricultural town of Dara‘a. The mini-uprising met a brutal response, one that few observers at the time could have anticipated would blow up into a far wider rebellion against President Bashar Assad and the entrenched, decades-long rule of his family. With Syrian authorities clamping down on journalistic access and freedoms, we saw glimpses of the unrest there for months only through grainy YouTube footage, images as uncertain and hard to corroborate as the events on the ground.
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My Comment: The following collection of photos capture the dramatic rescue of Syrian civilian (rebel?) shot twice by snipers in Aleppo. But the photo(s) that captures (for me) how quick life can be extinguished in this conflict are here, and here.