SYRIA-CONFLICT

A Syrian woman cries holding her injured son in a taxi as they arrive at a hospital in northern city of Aleppo on February 8, 2013, following shelling by government forces. Loyalists troops made ground in the country’s north, retaking Karnaz on the strategic Damascus-Aleppo highway on Wednesday after a 16-day onslaught, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. AFP PHOTO/AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)