A Free Syrian Army fighter rests on a red couch in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood
A Free Syrian Army fighter rests on a red couch in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood, West Aleppo December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a Molotov cocktail during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood
A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a Molotov cocktail during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood, West Aleppo December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
A Free Syrian Army fighter sits in shooting position during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood
A Free Syrian Army fighter sits in shooting position during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood, West Aleppo December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a Molotov cocktail during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood
A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a Molotov cocktail during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood, West Aleppo December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
Bombs across Baghdad kill at least 15, clashes continue in Anbar - sources
Bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, police and medical sources said, a day after police broke up a Sunni Muslim protest camp in a western province.
A man reacts after an explosion in a bus in Tariq Al Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo
A man reacts after an explosion in a bus caused by what activists said was shelling from forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Tariq Al Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo, December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ahmad Othman (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
Residents inspect a bus that exploded due to what activists said was shelling in Tariq Al Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo
Residents inspect a bus that exploded due to what activists said was shelling from forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Tariq Al Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo, December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ahmad Othman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A shoe lies beside a damaged bus that exploded in Tariq Al Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo
A shoe lies beside a damaged bus that exploded due to what activists said was shelling from forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Tariq Al Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Ahmad Othman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
Anti-Assad monitoring group says Syrian death toll passes 130,000
The death toll in Syria's civil war has risen to at least 130,433, more than a third of them civilians on both sides of the conflict, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.