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As Syrian rebels close in on nation's capital, many are bracing for a bloody fight.

A member of Liwa (Brigade) Salahadin, a Kurdish military unit fighting along side rebel fighters, aims at a regime fighter in the besieged district of Karmel al-Jabl in eastern Aleppo, on December 6, 2012.

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