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Syrians shop at the Hamidiyah market for clothes, shoes, candies and other celebratory items on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 in the run-up to Eid al-Adh, or "feast of sacrifice." This is the third Eid al-Adha in Syria since an uprising started as mostly peaceful anti-Bashar Assad demonstrations in March 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring. After activists were violently targeted, it morphed into an armed uprising and civil war. The conflict has killed over 100,000 people, forced over 2 million to flee to neighboring countries, and displaced another 5 million within Syria. (AP Photo)

Gunmen kidnap 7 Red Cross workers in Syria

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) meets with Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Mr. Assad told Mr. Maurer that the Red Cross is welcome to operate on the ground in the country as long as it remains "neutral and independent," the SANA state news agency reported. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria’s Assad holds talks with Red Cross chief

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video from Hama Revolution 2011 and accessed by AP video on Friday, July 13, 2012, purports to show families gathered around bodies of victims killed by violence that, according to anti-regime activists, was carried out by Syrian government forces in Tremseh, Syria. (AP Photo/Hama Revolution 2011 via AP video)

Syria denies use of heavy weapons in latest violence

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

Slaughter of civilians denied by Assad forces

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

British humanitarian worker Khalil Dale, seen here in an undated family photo issued by the British Red Cross on April 29, 2012, was killed in Pakistan after being kidnapped in January. (Associated Press/Family handout via Red Cross)

Red Cross stops work in much of Pakistan

Associated Press

Briefly: Red Cross says 1.5 million in Syria lack basics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Red Cross: Gamers safe from war crimes prosecution

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Maarten van Aalst, leading climate specialist for the Red Cross and Red Crescent, speaks about how climate change will affect people and assets during the presentation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report at a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in this April 11, 2007 file photo. Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa had a sharp message Friday Nov. 18, 2011 for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" caused by global warming. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)

Science panel: Get ready for extreme weather

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Hundreds of Libyans flee Gadhafi’s hometown

By Hadeel al-Shalchi - Associated Press

A look at relief efforts after Peruvian quake

S. Korea negotiates hostages’ fate