Bashar Assad

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Syrian president Bashar Assad, center left, visits a shelter of internally displaced people in the Damascus suburb of Adra, Syria, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks during an interview with a Russian newspaper in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

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FILE - In this March 4, 2011, file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, a Lebanese anti-Syrian regime leader, addresses his supporters during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad, where a number of the Syrian Baath Party supporters were also protesting, at the Martyrs square in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon. A Lebanese military prosecutor has charged a hard-line Sunni cleric with being involved in a deadly shootout with government troops and killing of soldiers, demanding he face the death penalty. Lebanon's state news agency reported Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 that military prosecutor Riad Abu Ghaida also charged 56 supporters of cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir with committing crimes against the military. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla,File)

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying the body of a child who was killed following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

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This Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian men helping a wounded man from the scene after a government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)