The Photos That Mattered in 2012

A look back at the images that defined an unforgettable year.

DECEMBER 26, 2012

In a cemetery in Aleppo on Oct. 13, a Free Syrian Army fighter illuminates the body of an unknown man killed by the Syrian Army's artillery shelling before burying the corpse in a common grave. More than 44,000 have died from the violence in Syria since March 2011, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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