Aleppo, Syria

A mother and daughter wait to be transferred to a different hospital, after receiving treatment at a clinic in central Aleppo. They were injured along with another infant when shrapnel from a regime jet—which fired on the road they were traveling along—hit their vehicle.

In July, the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) entered Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and commercial capital. Rebel-held neighborhoods, initially in southwest Aleppo and later throughout the city, became battlefields, as government forces attempted to regain control.

Both rebel and regime forces deployed snipers, and the national army made use of heavy artillery and air power to bombard occupied areas. A UN-brokered ceasefire in late October was not honored by either side, and casualties rose steeply in November.