A Síria a ferro e fogo

Smoke rising after a shell fired by Syrian army soldiers exploded in Aleppo on Saturday.

Diplomats from around the world gathered in the Montreux Palace Hotel last week for the so-called Geneva II peace talks in an effort to get the violence to stop in Syria. It promises to be a challenging process.

Damaged buildings in Homs. Many of those apparently tortured to death by the Assad regime were taken into custody in and around the city during the course of the last two years.

Rebel fighters manning a barricade in the northwestern city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday. More than 130,000 have lost their lives in the fighting in Syria. A further 50,000 are considered missing. New photos depicting bodies of prisoners who had been tortured to death may indicate what happened to many of those who are missing

A man walks down a street in Homs on Sunday. A report written on the basis of thousands of photos of torture smuggled out of Syria by a defector says there is "clear evidence ... of systematic torture and killing of detained persons."