epa04130782 Ahmad Al-Jarba, President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces speaks during a joint news conference with Chairman of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals Belgian Guy Verhofstadt (not pictured), on the 3rd anniversary of the beginning of the Syrian revolution, at the EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, 18 March 2014. Syria’s crisis started with peaceful anti-government demonstrations in mid-March 2011 before turning into civil war after al-Assad’s regime attempted to quash the protests. EPA/JULIEN WARNAND