Syria

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the joint special envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks during a news conference following the Action Group on Syria meeting on Saturday, June 30, 2012, in Geneva. (AP Photo/Martial Trezzini, Keystone)

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** FILE ** Syrian security forces officers hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad from the windows of their building, which was destroyed after a car bomb exploded near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she arrives for a meeting of the Action Group for Syria at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, June 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)

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**FILE** Members of the Free Syrian Army are seen June 28, 2012, in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian soldiers stand at the explosion site where a car bomb exploded near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, seen in the background, suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, June 14, 2012. A car bomb exploded Thursday in a Damascus suburb that is home to a popular Shiite Muslim shrine, wounding at least two people, Syria's state-run news agency SANA reported, while activists said regime troops continued shelling rebellious areas in central Homs province. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the joint U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, briefs the press at the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

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In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, smoke rises from buildings following purported shelling in Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video)

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This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners raising their hands and chanting slogans, as they carry the coffins of Syrian citizens who were killed by the Syrian forces shelling, in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday June 26, 2012. Syria's elite Republican Guard forces clashed with rebels just outside Damascus Tuesday in some of the most intense fighting involving the special forces guarding the capital since an uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began last year, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)

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This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed on Sunday, June 24, 2012, purports to show Syrian military tanks in Hama, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video)