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Free Syrian Army fighters fire at enemy positions during heavy clashes with government forces in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Abdullah Al-Yasin)
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**FILE** Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria, on Dec. 17, 2012. The training is part of an attempt to transform the rag-tag rebel groups into a disciplined fighting force. (Associated Press)
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria, on Dec. 27, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria, on Dec. 27, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.N. Arab League deputy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an anti-Syrian regime protester holding up an Arabic placard reading: "the victory fingers over the Place (the presidential palace)," during a demonstration, at Binnish village, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday Nov. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)
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Syrians help a wounded man after a government airstrike hit the Hama suburb of Halfaya, Syria, on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, in this image taken from video that has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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Lakhdar Brahimi (left), an envoy of the United Nations and Arab League, visits Monday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus in an effort to find a way out of the civil war that activists say has killed more than 40,000 people. (Associated Press)
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This Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, image taken from video that has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting shows a Syrian man carrying an elderly woman after a government airstrike hit the Hama suburb of Halfaya, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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**FILE** Syrian Orthodox Christians attend Easter Mass in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Syria's population of more than 22 million, say they are particularly vulnerable to the violence that has been sweeping the country since March 2011. They are fearful that the country will become another Iraq, with Christians caught in the crossfire between rival Islamic groups. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
