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British Prime Minister David Cameron (front row center) walks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh (second from right) and Andrew Harper (right), U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative to Jordan, during his visit to the Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo)

Western efforts on Syria shifting

By Dale Gavlak and David Stringer - Associated Press

A Free Syrian Army fighter watches over an enemy position Wednesday as rebels belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group fight at the Moaskar front line in the Karmal Jabl neighborhood in Aleppo. The protracted Syrian war is spilling into other countries. (Associated Press)

Syrian war boils over onto U.S. allies; outside jihadists rush in

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Jordanian soldier killed in skirmish with militants

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

Briefly: Travel ban eased in Jordan Valley

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta attends a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Panetta: U.S. sends forces to Jordan’s border with Syria

By Lollita C. Baldor and Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press

A Syrian family walks down a street that was destroyed in an Assad-regime airstrike earlier in the day in the al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel: Syrian mortars accidentally land in Golan

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (left), the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, speaks in Mafraq, Jordan, on Tuesday as Andrew Harper, the UNHCR representative to Jordan, listens during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp for Syrians who fled the civil war. (Associated Press)

Syrian refugees protest U.N. envoy

By Dale Gavlak - Associated Press

Jolie hears ‘horrific’ accounts of Syrian refugees

By DALE GAVLAK - Associated Press

** FILE ** Angelina Jolie, the U.N. refugee agency's special envoy, speaks to the press during her visit to the Zaatari Syrian Refugees Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The Hollywood star arrived on Tuesday morning in the Zaatari camp, which hosts about 27,000 Syrians displaced by the 18-month conflict in their homeland. (Associated Press)

Angelina Jolie: Hears ‘horrific’ accounts of Syrian refugees

By Dale Gavlak - Associated Press

Jolie visits Jordan camp for Syrian refugees

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Angelina Jolie in Jordan to visit Syrian refugees

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Angelina Jolie (Associated Press)

Angelina Jolie: Actress goes to Jordan to visit Syrian refugees

Associated Press

Alaeddin Boroujerdi (left), head of Iran's powerful parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, meets with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012.
Mr. al-Sharaa's appearance at the meeting ended rumors that he had defected to Jordan. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Mass burials in Damascus suburb amid massacre report

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image from Aug. 26, 2012, provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show victims killed by shabiha pro-government militiamen being buried in a mass grave in Daraya, Syria. According to activists' accounts, government forces retook the Damascus suburb of Daraya from rebel control three days prior and went on a killing spree. Reports of the death toll range widely from more than 300 to as many as 600. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network)

Dozens of civilians slaughtered in Syrian town

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has made a rare television appearance urging the Muslim Brotherhood to contest the elections and said substantial political reform will take hold in time. (Associated Press)

King Abdullah has fine line between power and elections

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

The leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, Col. John Garang, has a bachelor’s degree from Iowa’s Grinnell College and a master’s and doctorate from Iowa State. (Associated Press)

Armed with U.S. education, many leaders take on world

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Riad Hijab, Syriaís defected former prime minister, speaks at a press conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Hijab is the highest-ranking political figure to defect from Assadís regime and in his first public comments since leaving his post and fleeing to Jordan he said Tuesday that the regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Assad government near collapse, says ex-prime minister

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

Syrians inspect a hole allegedly made during an airstrike by government forces in the town of Marea, some 21 miles north of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Prime minister who defected says Syrian regime near collapse

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network and taken on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, purports to show Syrians standing in the rubble of a destroyed building from shelling by Syrian forces in the Khaldiyeh neighborhood of Syria's Homs province. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)

Syrian opposition leader calls for no-fly zone

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Aug. 7, 2012, purports to show defected Prime Minister Riad Hijab (center) before leaving Syria en route to Jordan in Daraa, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Defecting Syrian PM arrives in Jordan after hiding

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press