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Syrian army defectors stand guard on a rooftop to secure an anti-Syrian regime protest in the Deir Baghlaba area in Homs province, central Syria, on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, activists said Friday. (AP Photo)

Arab League halts observer mission in Syria

Associated Press

Syrian army defectors celebrate with the Syrian revolution flag shortly after they joined the anti-regime protesters in Homs province on Thursday, the same day Syrian troops stormed a suburb of Damascus as the 10-month uprising inches ever closer to the capital. "A fierce battle is taking place, and troops are shelling areas with heavy machine gunfire," an activist said. (Associated Press)

Syrian troops storm Damascus suburb

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russia to keep blocking U.N. sanctions on Syria

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Foreign minister: Syria has duty to confront armed groups

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Syria rejects Arab League plan to end growing crisis

By Bassem Mroue and Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Syrian army defectors gather at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. President Bashar Assad's forces attacked Zabadani for six days, sparking fierce fighting that involved heavy bombardments and clashes with the defectors. (AP Photo)

Arab League extends Syria mission for another month

By Bassem Mroue and Hadeel Al-Shalchi - Associated Press

Assad insists no foreign troops will be allowed in

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati attend the opening session of a conference on democracy in the Arab world in Beirut on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

U.N. chief: Syria’s Assad must stop violence

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

This image from amateur video made available by the Ugarit News group and shot Jan. 12, 2012, purports to show protesters demonstrating against the killing of a French journalist in Daraa, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News Group via APTN)

Arab League chief warns of Syria civil war

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a two-hour speech at Damascus University in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Syrian State Television via APTN)

Syria’s Assad vows ‘iron hand’ against opponents

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a speech Tuesday at Damascus University, said he would not step down and insisted that he still has his people's support despite a 10-month-old uprising against him. (SANA via Associated Press)

Assad sees uprising as foreign conspiracy

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

A Syrian immigrant waves Bulgarian and the revolutionary Syrian flag, during a rally against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in front of the Syrian embassy in Sofia, on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. Syrian opposition groups say the death toll has risen beyond 6,000 and government forces continue to kill protesters despite the presence of Arab League monitors. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Assad foes lose unity over foreign intervention

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Syrian investigators inspect next to a damaged car at the scene of a bomb in Midan neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 6, 2012. An explosion ripped through a police bus, killing many in an attack authorities blamed on a suicide bomber, an official and state-run TV said. (Associated Press)

Bombing in Syrian capital of Damascus kills 25

By Bassem Mroue and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans and hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration Jan. 4, 2012, in Damascus, Syria, to show solidarity for Assad. (Associated Press)

Syrian opposition row over foreign military action nixes unity effort

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reviews sailors in Lanveoc-Poulmic before a speech in which he called the violence in Syria "a massacre." (Associated Press)

Sarkozy condemns ‘barbarous repression’

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Maggie Michael - Associated Press

Lebanese and Syrian activists hold Syrian revolutionary flags on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, during a candlelight vigil in downtown Beirut in mourning Syrians killed since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March. The banner in Arabic reads, "2012 Syria is free." (Associated Press)

Arab League: Syrian tanks withdraw, killings go on

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

In this image from amateur video made available by the Ugarit News group and shot on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, protesters gather at an anti-Bashar Assad rally in Hama, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News Group via APTN)

Syrian opposition groups unite against Assad

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian soldiers chant slogans Dec. 30, 2011, during a pro-regime rally in Damascus, Syria. The rebel Free Syrian Army said it has stopped its offensive against government targets during a month-long mission by Arab League monitors, saying it wants to expose how the regime is killing peaceful protesters. (Associated Press)

Emboldened by monitors, Syrians hold huge protests

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Syrian forces fire on activists near monitors from Arab League

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

**FILE** Anti-Syrian regime protesters, some wearing Syrian revolution flags, gather Dec. 21, 2011, during a night demonstration in the Baba Amr area, in Homs province, Syria. (Associated Press)

Foreign monitors energize Syrian protests

By Albert Aji and Zeina Karam - Associated Press