2013 Best Student Portfolio
Winner: Coty Giannelli / The Daily Kent Stater
Winner - 2013 Best Student Portfolio
Young Free Syrian Army fighters throw grenades into the neighboring building, where regime troops have taken control, in Aleppo on June 27, 2013. As the fighting in Aleppo intensifies, the front lines disappear and combatants are forced to fight building to building.
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A Free Syrian Army fighter, who defected from the Syrian Army, looks out of a window trying to spot enemy fighters in neighboring buildings on June 27, 2013. As the fighting in Aleppo intensifies, the front lines disappear and combatants are forced to fight building to building. Watching
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Teresa Napier prays as her preacher at the Hyden Church of God, in Hyden, KY, blesses her with annointed oil on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Mrs. Napier recently discovered that her kidneys weren’t functioning normally.
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A Syrian child sits in the lap of a Free Syrian Army fighter in Northern Syria on June 20, 2013. This child's parents were killed in the fighting and he has been adopted by a local brigade of fighters who not raise him as if he were their son.
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A Syrian man and his neighbors work to clean up what is left of his house after government jets droppedbombs on an area populated with civilians in Northern Syria on June 20, 2013. People were reportedly killed and many injured, including this man’s son.
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A young worker grinds off the sharp edges from a mortar shell that will be filled, assembled and shipped to the front lines from this location in northern Syria on June 22, 2013. Running out of weapons and with little help from the outside world the Free Syrian Army has set up it's own munitions factories. This young laborer works in an underground factory that produces munitions for one of the most powerful Free Syrian Army brigades in the area, The Ahrar Suriyah. This factory is so secret that most of the fighters have no clue about its existence.
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Abu Ala, 23, works on machine a mortar shell as his older brother manages other workers in the factory on June 22, 2013. Abu Ala and his three brothers run this secret weapons factory for the Ahrar Suriyah brigade. Abu Ala and his brothers were foremen in a factory in Beirut before coming back to Syria to support the revolution.
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Unloaded shotgun shells are placed in the mortars and used to ignite the propellant packs that are wrapped around the base of the mortars before they are fired on June 22, 2013. These mortars are hand assembled in this factory and shipped out to fighters all over northern Syria.
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A young factory worker machines small fuses for mortar shells produced at this factory on June 22, 2013. This factory, with its outdated equipment, can manufacture around 50 shells in a 14 hours period.
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Syrian-made grenades made from salvaged water pipes and sealed with yellow wax, lay on the ground next to explosive mixture that they are packed with, in a secret arms factory in northern Syria on June 22, 2013. This factory is able to produce 1000 of these grenades a day.
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A worker assembles the bodies to what will eventually become prototype rockets that the Free Syrian Army has started to manufacture and test in Aleppo, Syria on June 22, 2013. With little or no support from the outside world the FSA has begun to prototype and create its own weapons from simple grenade to large mortars and rockets.
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A mortar tube and prototype rockets in a Syrian rebel weapons factory waiting to be shipped out and tested in northern Syria on June 22, 2013.
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A Free Syrian Army fighter, formerly an officer in the Syrian Army, takes cover as he prepares to fire a Syrian-made mortar at a regime-held position in northern Syria on June 22, 2013.
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A spotter watches for the impact of the mortar shell as other fighters take cover and prepare for the regime to retaliate in northern Syria on June 22, 2013. Without the help of the international community, the Free Syrian Army and other rebel groups have used what resources they have available to them to match firepower with the Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah-backed regime forces
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