Syria's civil conflict – in pictures

An injured man arrives at the Dar al Shifa hospital in Aleppo Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A father cries as he carries his dead child into Dar al Shifa hospital Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A child covers his wounds after being injured by a Syrian army sniper. Activists in Syria claim the death toll from violence across the country reached 80 on 4 October, with the majority of casualties occurring in the northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A Free Syrian Army fighter cries outside the Dar al Shifa hospital after one of his friends was injured during fighting with the Syrian army Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A Free Syrian Army fighter illuminates the body of a man killed by Syrian army artillery shelling before burying it in a common grave in an Aleppo cemetery Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A Syrian woman returns home after waiting in a bread line in Aleppo. Areas where women, children and the elderly take refuge, including bread lines, hospitals and schools, are daily targets for Syrian army snipers and artillery shelling Photograph: Maysun/EPA

The body of a child lies in front of Dar al Shifa hospital. His entire family was killed by Syrian army artillery shelling Photograph: Maysun/EPA

Using materials they have found, Syrian refugee children play at a camp at the Syrian-Turkish border near Azaz Photograph: Maysun/EPA

Syrian children play on a slide in a refugee camp at the Syrian-Turkish border near Azaz. The makeshift camp, which houses several thousand refugees in poor sanitary conditions and is controlled by the Free Syrian Army, is reported to be growing daily Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A Syrian refugee sits on a pile of belongings, waiting for permission to enter Turkey, at the Syrian-Turkish border near Azaz Photograph: Maysun/EPA

Smoke billows over shelled and destroyed buildings in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla district on 2 October. The Syrian army has continued shelling in the city, and has brought in reinforcements to try to end the rebels' resistance Photograph: Maysun/EPA

An old woman, wounded during Syrian army artillery shelling, is carried into Dar al Shifa hospital. Aleppo's few operating hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of casualties Photograph: MAYSUN/EPA

A wounded man prays to Allah after he was treated by doctors in Dar al Shifa hospital Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A Syrian boy helps his father to sell birds at a street stall in Aleppo Photograph: Maysun/EPA

Free Syrian Army fighters reload an anti-aircraft gun known as Dishka in a street in Aleppo's al-Sha'ar neighbourhood Photograph: Maysun/EPA

A Free Syrian Army fighter shoots on Syrian army positions in the Saif al-Dawla district of Aleppo Photograph: Maysun/EPA