ALEPPO, Syria — They can be seen clinging to their parents in war-damaged dwellings across Syria, and heard crying out in response to the gunfire and artillery that boom at all hours of the day and night.

Newborns are but one sign that as the Syrian conflict has stretched on for nearly a year and a half, the country’s residents have learned to go on with life. Along with the many funerals of this staggering war, there are guilt-ridden weddings in which many invitees never make it, and births, with new arrivals entering the world under harrowing circumstances and sometimes being given the names of the departed.

Abu Mustafa named his son, born near Aleppo on July 28, after his wife’s brother, who died just days earlier in the fighting.

“This is Syria; Mustafa is dead but a new Mustafa is born,” said Abu Mustafa, a factory worker. “Most of the new babies are getting names from the dead. I know families that named them for dead fathers, uncles and other relatives. However many the regime kills, we are ready, to make new babies to replace them.”