FILE - Bullet holes are seen in a window in Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Clashes between pro- and anti-Syria gunmen in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli left two people dead and 12 wounded in the latest skirmish between Lebanese factions over the crisis in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
FILE - Bullet holes are seen in a window in Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Clashes between pro- and anti-Syria gunmen in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli left two people dead and 12 wounded in the latest skirmish between Lebanese factions over the crisis in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
FILE - Ahmed, center, mourns his father Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian Army sniper, during his funeral in Idlib, north Syria, Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib, north Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2012. Aida's husband and two of her children were killed after their home was shelled. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - Free Syrian Army fighters ride a motorbike to approach Syrian Army tanks in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - The wife of Mohammed Halak slumps in a chair next to his body as she mourns the death of her husband, killed during fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and the Syrian Army in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Syrians marked the second anniversary of the revolt against President Bashar Assad on Friday, holding small protests and vigils inside the war-shattered country and abroad. Since the heady, early days of their uprising, many Syrians opposed to the regime have descended into despair: The civil war has killed an estimated 70,000 people, displaced more than four million and turned neighbor against neighbor.
The country, with a prewar population of 22 million, is now carved up into areas controlled by the regime and others held by rebels. Months of heavy street fighting and aerial bombardment has left entire neighborhoods in ruins.
As the war enters its third year, many Syrians feel a sense of abandonment. Others in the rebel movement think momentum is on their side, believing they're able to declare victory within few months.
Here is a gallery of photos looking back at the conflict in Syria.
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