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Ammar Aldeerani, 21, a defected soldier from the Syrian security forces
As they waited to return to the fight against government forces, rebels at a house in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo posed for portraits for AP photographer Muhammed Muheisen. In their former lives, before the war, they were a construction worker, a farmer, even a librarian. Two of them are former government soldiers.
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Hamzah Alhassan, 25, a former blacksmith
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Abu Muslim, 30, a former librarian
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Shadi Farrouh, 28, a former construction worker
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Abu Faris, 28, a defected officer from the Syrian security forces
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Ahmad Hussein, 22, a former factory worker
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Abu Bara', 30, a former farmer
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