A makeshift refugee camp in the vicinity of Azaz, Syria is reported to be housing several thousand refugees under poor sanitary conditions and under the control of the Free Syrian Army. While residents keep fleeing the embattled areas, rebels claim gains in northern parts of the country along the border with Turkey. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group, said the rebels now control a larger number of towns in the north.
--Reported by the European Press Agency
Meanwhile, tensions between Syria and Turkey are high as the two countries exchange fire across the border.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The European Press Agency made these Oct. 7 images available to NBC News on Oct. 8.
Previously on PhotoBlog:
- Turkish soldiers secure border with Syria
- Overcome with grief, Syrian man drops to his knees holding his dead son
- Inside Syria with Ann Curry
- The fragility of life in Syria's borderlands
- Amid Syria's civil war violence, a strange calm in the capital
- Turkish hospital gives Syrian refugees a place to heal
