From left: Syrian national opposition coalition`s Vice President Abdulhakim Bashar , Secretary General Nasr Hariri, newly elected president Hadi Al-Bahra, Vice President Noura Al-Ameer, and Vice President Mohammad Husseein Quddah pose during press conference on July 9, 2014 at a Syrian opposition meeting in Istanbul. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, by May some 2,000 civilians including 500 children had been killed in the daily air strikes, which rights groups have condemned as a “war crime” for failing to discriminate between military and civilian targets. AFP PHOTO/OZAN KOSE