Syria

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In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, Syrians react after a government warplane was shot down in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered on Monday immediate repairs to the 13th-century Umayyad mosque, a historic mosque in Aleppo. (Associated Press)

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Smoke rises from buildings hit by government forces shelling, as seen through broken glass, in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Doctors, nurses and volunteers help a wounded woman at Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A Syrian man, wounded by Syrian army shelling, cries while the bodies of his relatives lie on the street near Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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An elderly Syrian man helps his wife, who was wounded in shelling by government forces, to get treatment at the Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A Syrian doctor notes the name of a severely wounded man at Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Smoke rises from a damaged building in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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** FILE ** The Umayyad mosque in Aleppo, Syria, is pictured in 1973. Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, immediate repairs to the historic mosque in a move likely aimed at containing Muslim outrage after fierce fighting between rebels and regime forces set parts of the mosque on fire over the weekend. (AP Photo/Azad)

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This citizen journalism image taken from video provided by Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows what Human Rights Watch says are cluster bombs dropped in Tamanea, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. The New York-based rights group said the use of such bombs in Syria's civil war is the latest sign of Syrian President Bashar Assad's disregard for his own people. Syrian government officials had no immediate comment. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via Human Rights Watch)