The World in Photos This Week

Obama and Romney point fingers, a bombing rocks Beirut, and casualties mount as the war in Syria rages on.

OCTOBER 19, 2012

A Free Syrian Army rebel fighter illuminates the body of an unknown man killed by Syrian Army artillery shelling in the cementery of Aleppo, Syria, on Oct. 13 before burying it in a common grave. As casualties mount, Aleppo's few operating hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of victims, mostly civilians, killed during heavy fighting between government forces and Syrian rebels.

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