SYRIAN PROTESTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD — A makeshift gallows with a poster shows the pictures of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad during an anti-regime protest outside the Syrian embassy in the Cypriot capital Nicosia on July 31, 2011.
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A protester holds a copy of the Quran as he shouts slogans during a demonstration by a few hundred Egyptians and Syrians outside Syria's embassy in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 5, 2011.
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A man shouts slogans during a demonstration against the Syrian government in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2011.
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Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against the Syrian government in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2011.
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Lebanese and Syrian protesters gather at the Martyrs' Square in in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 8, 2011, during a demonstration against the Syrian regime.
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People take part in a demonstration gathering activists, including Syrians living in Turkey, opposed to Syria's regime of President Bashar al-Assad on August 7, 2011 in front of the Syrian consulate in Istanbul.
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Lebanese soldiers stand as supporters of the Syrian regime protest in the Lebanese capital Beirut, on July 24, 2011.
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