Tuesday, May 21st 01:46 PM IST
Al-Qaeda IMAGE.
A man wearing a black shirt bearing an Al-Qaeda flag stands with Syrian rebels in the village of Azzara in the province of Homs on May 4, 2012. Syria's parliamentary polls due to be held on May 7 against a backdrop of unrest, which the  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says has killed more than 11,000 people since March last year, will do little to change the autocratic country, according to regime critics and analysts.

A man wearing a black shirt bearing an Al-Qaeda flag stands with Syrian rebels in the village of Azzara in the province of Homs on May 4, 2012. Syria's parliamentary polls due to be held on May 7 against a backdrop of unrest, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says has killed more than 11,000 people since March last year, will do little to change the autocratic country, according to regime critics and analysts.