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** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, meeting for several hours on Monday, May 27, 2013, with rebel leaders in Syria, was asked for U.S. help to establish a no-fly zone, obtain anti-aircraft weapons and launch airstrikes on targets associated with the regime of President Bashar Assad. (Syrian Emergency Task Force)

In secret trip to Syria, Sen. John McCain hears rebels’ pleas for help

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

A Lebanese policeman speaks on his phone as he stands at a damaged balcony where a rocket struck an apartment in a building in the Chiyah district south of Beirut on Sunday, May 26, 2013. Rockets that slammed into two Hezbollah stronghold neighborhoods wounded at least four people. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

2 rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon

By Zein Karam - Associated Press

Rebel fighters celebrate after purportedly capturing an army base in Nairab, northwestern Syria, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The video is consistent with independent AP reporting. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syria’s pro-Assad forces, Hezbollah unleash artillery barrage on Qusair

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** FILE ** A Sunni gunman fires his machine gun during clashes that erupted between pro- and anti-Syrian regime gunmen, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, May. 23, 2013. (AP Photo)

5 dead in Lebanon clash of Assad foes, backers

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry gestures during a joint a news conference with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Young, Pool)

Kerry: U.S., allies ready to step up aid to rebels

By Bassem Mroue and Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

A European Union flag waves in the wind in front of the Chancellery in Berlin on Oct. 12, 2012. **FILE**

European Union poised to add Hezbollah to terror list

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) is not on the ballot in June's election. He is shown with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (center) and chief of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. (Associated Press)

KAHLILI: Syrian crisis signals Iranian vulnerability

By Reza Kahlili

FBI agents carry boxes and a computer from the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director, in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Feds take little action against U.S. Web companies hosting sites linked to terror

By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian

This image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a rocket fired by Syrian rebels at Mannagh air base in the Aleppo province of Syria on May 13, 2013. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syrian activists warn of regime attack near Lebanon

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

BRODSKY: Israel’s game-changer with Hezbollah

By Matthew R.J. Brodsky

Israel’s attack turns Syria’s civil war into regional war

By Ashish Kumar Sen and - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike are seen in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital early Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Israel returns to ‘business as usual’ after strikes on Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican (Associated Press)

Israeli airstrikes on Syria put Obama at the crossroads

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria, June 3, 2012. Israel launched an airstrike into Syria on Friday, May 3, 2013, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said Friday night, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Israeli strike on Syria targeted weapons shipment

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** FILE ** In this image from video broadcast on Syrian state television Wednesday, April 17, 2013, President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview. (AP Photo/Syrian State TV via AP video

Hezbollah helping prop up Syrian regime in fight with rebels

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, waves to his supporters, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah warns: U.S., Israel will not take Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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Israel activates 2,000 reservists for surprise drill against Hezbollah

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, April 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Israeli military shoots down drone likely launched by Hezbollah

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Lebanese Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir, one of Hezbollah’s harshest critics in Lebanon, is seen with his weapon during a tense situation between his group and Hezbollah in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanon clerics call for jihad against Shiites in Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Free Syrian Army fighters take their position during a battle with Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on In on Saturday, April 13, 2013, in this citizen journalist image provided by Aleppo Media Center and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. Activists say government warplanes have carried out airstrikes around the country. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center)

Syrian activists: 40 Hezbollah, regime fighters killed in Homs clashes

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times