Things are heating up in Syria's Aleppo this week. Daesh offensives are pushing into the strategic border town of Azaz, while Syrian goverment shellings continue to rain down on residential streets. All the while, rebel factions are begging for more airstrike support from the US-led coalition, while the US tweets about how Assad and Daesh could be working together.
Unsurprisingly, the ones in the worst crises in all of this are still the civilians.
These photos popped up on Reddit this week, showing how residents trapped inside the besieged northern province are turning old buses into makeshift barricades against snipers.
This first one we've seen before. TIME highlighted the photographer, a young Aleppo resident named Karam Al-Masri, as the face behind the photo. Masri said rebels had used ropes and pulleys to pull the buses up as shields for government snipers that still lurk on Aleppo's rooftops. He took this photo on March 14, 2015.
These next couple appear to be new, though they are not dated or attributed. Courtesy of Imgur. 
