Today's Takeaway | December 12, 2012
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A fighter stands close to a gun in the Sheikh Suleiman base, some 15 miles northwest of the city of Aleppo on December 9, 2012.
( Herve Bar / AFP/Getty Images )
( Herve Bar / AFP/Getty Images )