For the first time in years, hundreds of Syrians across the country took advantage of a nearly week-long ceasefire to resume anti-government protests under the slogan "The Revolution Continues."

Waving the tricolour flag that has become the emblem of Syria's uprising, demonstrators in opposition-held areas of Aleppo, Damascus, Daraa, and Homs called for the downfall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.