Syria

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** FILE ** This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Friday, May 25, 2012 purports to show shelling in Jobar, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed May 23, 2012, purports to show Syrians chanting slogans during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, purports to show a building on fire from shelling in Homs province of Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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A Lebanese Shiite Muslim blocks the street in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday to protest against the kidnapping of 12 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Syria's northern province of Aleppo by Syrian rebels. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, has appealed for calm. (Associated Press)

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This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed May 22, 2012, purports to show U.N. observers being welcomed in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration in the Zabadani neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)

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** FILE ** Syrian soldiers are seen through the damaged window of a military truck that was hit by a roadside bomb in Daraa, Syria, on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The blast occurred just seconds after a team of U.N. observers passed by. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)