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October 23: An elderly woman crosses a street next to a long black cloth used to separate the area from Syrian government forces' sniper fire, in the Bab el-Adid district in Aleppo. UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is pushing "extremely hard" for a ceasefire in Syria and will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday on his efforts, the UN spokesman said.

As we edited our slideshow on the conflict in Syria today, the picture above made us pause. The scene looked familiar. Checking back through the hundreds of pictures wire agencies have transmitted from Aleppo over recent weeks, we found out why: We had seen this street before, 39 days earlier.    

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September 14: A man carrying grocery bags tries to dodge sniper fire as he runs through an alley near a checkpoint manned by the Free Syrian Army in the northern city of Aleppo. Syrian regime forces used fighter jets and helicopter gunships to pound the city and province of Aleppo, monitors said.

Some tell-tale details remain the same. The red traffic sign on the right has the same small scratch across its band of white. The same green and red graffiti is just about visible on a distant wall. But in the intervening weeks, other things have changed. Rubble is piled up on the left of the frame, where an intact wall and sidewalk was previously visible. And while desperate civilians continue to risk the dangerous path across this piece of open ground, a long piece of cloth has been hung from one side of the street to the other, in an attempt to block the view of snipers.

In an article published on Tuesday, Hamza Hendawi of The Associated Press described the daily lives of Aleppans as the conflict rages around them:

With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going.

And while residents of the rebel-held areas express their hatred of Assad's regime and their dream of seeing him go, they also voice their worries over the rebels and the destruction that their offensive has brought to their city. Graffiti on the shutter of a closed store declares the population's sense of resignation: "God, you are all we've got." Read the full story.

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A frightened child stands in the street after a Syrian government artillery shell destroyed his family home in the Shaar neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on October 13, 2012.

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A man carries a woman from her destroyed home in the Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo on October 13, 2012.

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Smoke rises from buildings due to shelling by government forces, seen through broken glass in Aleppo on October 13, 2012.

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A doctor playing with a colleague's son, who lives with his parents and a brother at Dar al Shifa hospital, Aleppo, on October 13, 2012. Photo made available to NBC News on October 15.

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A man closing a common grave in the cemetery of Aleppo on October 13, 2012, after the burial of the bodies of two unknown men, killed by Syrian Army artillery shelling. Photo made available to NBC News on October 15.

Syria's army retook control of a historic mosque in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday after fierce clashes with rebels, a military official and an observer group said. 

As casualties mount, Aleppo's few operating hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of victims, mostly civilians, caused by several months of fighting between government forces and Syrian rebels. 

-- Agence France Presse and The European Pressphoto Agency contributed to this report

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A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 3.  Three suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in a government-controlled area in the embattled city of Aleppo, killing at least 34 people, leveling buildings and trapping survivors under the rubble. 

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A Free Syrian Army weeps over the body of his comrade, killed by a tank blast, in Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 26. Syria's unrest began in March 2011 when protests calling for political change met a violent government crackdown. Many in the opposition have since taken up arms as the conflict morphed into a civil war that activists say has killed nearly 30,000 people. Over the past few months, the rebels have increasingly targeted security sites and symbols of regime power in a bid to turn the tide in the fighting.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher while taking cover after a tank blast in Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 26.

Reuters -- At least 30,000 people have died in Syria's 18-month-old uprising, a British-based Syrian monitoring group said on Wednesday, and more than half of the victims counted were killed in the past five months.

The uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, which began in March 2011 as peaceful protests, has descended into civil war since rebels took up arms against a security force crackdown.

Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 30,716 people were killed. Most of them - at least 21,534 - were civilians. But his network of activists, who are based around Syria, do not divide their civilian death count between unarmed residents and those who have joined the rebels.

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Free Syrian Army fighters walk down stairs in a damaged building in Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 26.

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A woman cries near the body of her brother in front of Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 25, 2012. Activists say that Syria's 18-month conflict has left some 30,000 people dead.

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An FSA soldier shoots his weapon towards Syrian Army positions in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 10.

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Syrian rebel fighters raise their weapons as they head to fight government forces in Aleppo, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 10.

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A Syrian rebel fighter, registers the serial number of his AK-47 to a local leader, before heading to fight government forces in Aleppo, at their headquarters in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 10.

AP reports -- Support from rebel-controlled towns and villages dotting the rich farmland of this northwestern pocket near the Turkish border is likely one reason that rebel forces have been able to keep going in a now 2-month-old battle for control of Syria's largest city, Aleppo. The region is the rebels' strategic depth. Towns provide fighters. Residents help funnel food, supplies and ammunition to the front lines. And rebels engaged in the fight can find a safe refuge to rest and recuperate.

Rebels in July launched an audacious assault on Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub that until then had been untouched by the fighting. Eight weeks on, the rebels have held large chunks of the city and show no signs of being driven out as they were in a failed assault on the capital of Damascus over the summer. According to the rebels, the vast majority of those fighting in Aleppo come from the towns and the villages to the north, many of which have been free from government control since May.

The rebels are proving the wisdom of Che Guevara, who preached the importance of establishing safe havens and local support in the countryside. "The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. This is an indispensable condition," he wrote in the introduction to his 1960 manual "Guerrilla Warfare."

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Syrian Mohammed Ramadan, 46, whose displaced from his home in Dir el Zour, due to fighting between the rebels and government forces, comforts his daughter Haneen, 5, who suffers from a lung infection, while waiting to be examined by a doctor at a makeshift hospital in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 10.

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A Syrian rebel sniper shoots at forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Seif al-Dawla area in the embattled northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sept. 10.

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An FSA soldier walks through a street in Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 10.

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A man wounded by shelling sits on a chair outside a closed shop in the Al-Muasalat area of Aleppo, Syria on September 4, 2012.

Life returned to central Aleppo, an Agence France Presse reporter said, in stark contrast with the Syrian city's rebel-held outskirts where activists reported renewed bombardment and food shortages.

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Free Syrian Army fighters run to take cover away from the exchange fire while fighting with regime forces in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood of Syria's south west city of Aleppo, Aug. 24.

More than 90 people were killed across Syria on Friday, including 22 civilians in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, according to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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A Syrian man shows alleged marks of torture on his back after he was released by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Bustan Pasha neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, Aug. 23.

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