People run down a street in the city of Deir al-Zor, in eastern Syria, Photograph: Reuters/Khalil Ashawi

Assad’s forces take Qusayr, a strategic town on smuggling route used by rebels

An employee counts Syrian pound notes at the Syrian central bank in Damascus. The Syrian pound has lost about 60 per cent of its value against the US dollar in two years. Photograph: Reuters/Khaled al-Hariri

Economy has shrunk by an estimated 35-40 per cent

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his sniper rifle from a house in Aleppo on August 14th, 2012. Photograph: Reuters

Facility said to hold 4,000 prisoners, including 250 insurgents

A Syrian woman and her son in an alley in the Old City of Damascus, where an area covering 12 blocks was declared a peace zone in which no fighting was permitted: Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images

Forum for National Harmony works with all sides to resolve conflict

A Lebanese man inspects the damage after a rocket coming from Syria fell on his house in the town of Hermel, a few kilometres from Baalbek in the Bekaa valley, on April 26th, 2013. Photograph: AFP/Getty

A small town in Lebanon finds itself drawn into the neighbouring war

Syrian information minister Omran Zoabi: said Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan should “step down as a killer and a butcher”. Photograph: Khaled al-Hariri

Tensions simmer in wake of attacks as Damascus accuses Ankara of stoking conflict

The bombings that killed dozens in the Turkish city of Reyhanli on Saturday later expose the violent risks of spillover into neighbouring countries posed by the Syrian conflict. Photograph:  Reuters/Umit Bektas

Analysis: Neighbouring countries are getting embroiled in the Syrian conflict

Mairead Maguire and her colleagues have come to provide moral support to peacemakers of the non-denominational National Reconciliation movement. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire visiting Syria with other peace activists

A convoy formed by a delegation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent carry humanitarian aid as they drive in Aleppo’s countryside. Photograph: Reuters

A grassroots body of 3,000 volunteers helps Syrians of every allegiance

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