A child at a road sign to Kesab on the border with Turkey and the Latakiyah province.

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A Syrian soldier at a check point not far from Kesab, seized by Islamists, on the border with Turkey and the Latakiyah province.

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The Mediterranean shore not far from Kessab in the Latakiyah province.

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A portrait of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on the wall of a building in central Damascus.

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Syrian soldiers at a check point not far from Kesab, seized by Islamists, on the border with Turkey and the Latakiyah province.

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Syrian soldiers at a check point not far from Kesab, seized by Islamists, on the border with Turkey and the Latakiyah province.

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Syrian soldiers at a check point not far from Kesab, seized by Islamists, on the border with Turkey and the Latakiyah province.

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Syrian soldiers at a check point not far from Kesab, seized by Islamists, on the border with Turkey and the Latakiyah province.

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Syrian soldiers at a check point not far from Kesab, seized by Islamists, on the border with Turkey and the Latakiyah province.

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