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In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, a Syrian woman is stopped and questioned by rebels at a checkpoint in the Bustan Al-Pasha neighborhood, the boundary of the rebel-controlled area at the northeast limit of the Sheikh Maaksoud neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, destroyed buildings are seen along a desolated street in the Bustan Al-Pasha district after several weeks of intense battles between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, a rebel fighter belonging to the Qatebee Sokor Al-Islam group sneaks through a residential building as he looks for a firing position during clashes between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago.(AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, night falls on a Syrian rebel checkpoint in the Bustan Al-Pasha neighborhood, the boundary of the area controlled by rebel fighters at the northeast limit of the Kurdish-controlled area of Sheikh Maksoud in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, a rebel sniper aims at Syrian army positions in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, a rebel sniper aims at a Syrian army position, seen with another rebel fighter reflected in a mirror, in a residential building in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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Destroyed buildings line a desolated street in the Bustan Al-Pasha district of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after several weeks of intense battles between rebel fighters and the Syrian army. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, a rebel sniper aims at Syrian army positions in the Aleppo Jedida district, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

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A Syrian civilian sobs as a relative lies on a hospital trolley after was he was wounded by a sniper shot to his back in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday. A U.N.-backed truce declared for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha has failed to take hold. (Associated Press)

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Syrians cross a street as a pile of rubbish burns along the roadside in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, photo, a Syrian rebel fighter takes cover as he watches over the enemy position as mortar explosions and gunfire in Aleppo, Syria, on the first day of Eid Al-Adha. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, shakes hands with worshippers at a mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Fighting raged near a military base in Syria's north as a cease-fire in the bloody civil war was supposed to go into effect Friday at dawn, activists said, illustrating the difficulty of enforcing even a limited truce coinciding with a Muslim holiday. (AP Photo/SANA)