Wednesday, May 9, 2012
New recruits participate in a parade as they join the ranks of the Free Syrian Army in the Syrian town of Qusayr, 15 kms (nine miles) from Homs, on May 8, 2012. UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said on May 8, that his top priority in violence-wracked Syria was to stop the killing to prevent the country from sliding into full-scale civil war.
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