Each of the photos below comes from a “best of…” collection. Click on each picture to see the source.
![James-Woodcock](http://warincontext.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/James-Woodcock1.jpg)
A lenticular cloud formed as high winds blew over the rugged Crazy Mountains in Montana. (James Woodcock, Billings Gazette via Associated Press.)
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A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. November 18, 2012. (Bernat Armangue, AP.)
![Laurent-Van-der-Stockt](http://warincontext.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Laurent-Van-der-Stockt1.jpg)
A child wounded by Syrian Army artillery shelling is carried at the entrance of the Al Shifa hospital in Aleppo. (Laurent Van der Stockt, Getty Images.)
![Tomas-Munita](http://warincontext.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Tomas-Munita1.jpg)
A crowd beat a Syrian security officer who infiltrated a funeral for a fighter from the Free Syrian Army, January 27. (Tomas Munita, New York Times.)
![Muhammed-Muheisen](http://warincontext.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Muhammed-Muheisen1.jpg)
A Pakistani girl helps her father herd sheep near the demolished compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan that once housed Osama bin Laden. (Muhammed Muheisen, AP.)