TOPSHOTS A Syrian man shows marks of torture on his back, after he was released from regime forces, in the Bustan Pasha neighbourhood of Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on August 23, 2012. State media hailed the recapture by the army of three Christian neighbourhoods in the heart of Aleppo, but clashes between troops and rebel fighters raged in other parts of the city and in the southern belt of Damascus. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / JAMES LAWLER DUGGANJAMES LAWLER DUGGAN/AFP/GettyImages
