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Syrian troops capture town near Lebanon border

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Father Francis Van Der Lugt, 72, was was shot to death Monday by masked gunman in the central Syrian city of Homs, where he served as a missionary for roughly 50 years. "Francis was a symbol of a dream for Syria, that there can be healing there, even be a home," said Father Thomas H. Smolich, president of the Jesuit Conference. (associated press)

Jesuits mourn well-loved priest, murdered in Syria

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

USS Stout returns to Va. after 8-month deployment

By BROCK VERGAKIS - Associated Press

In this Thursday, March 27, 2014 photo, Reem Diab, 34, center, who lost her leg on Oct. 25, 2012 when a shell slammed into her house in the town of Khan Sheikoun in central Syria, takes off her artificial leg with the help of her relative, right, as Abeer Ameen, left, a physiotherapist for Handicap International observes, in Chtaoura, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon. The shelling killed her husband, Mustafa, and her 15-year-old daughter, Batoul. Syria’s civil war, which entered its fourth year last month, has killed more than 140,000 people. An often overlooked figure is the number of wounded more than 500,000, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. An untold number of those, there’s no reliable estimate even, have suffered traumatic injuries that have left them physically handicapped. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrians adjust to life without limbs

By RYAN LUCAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, television personality Kim Kardashian poses for photographers at the red carpet during the 40th anniversary of Cosmopolitan magazine in Spanish in Mexico City. Kim Kardashian has waded into the unlikely waters of Syria's civil war, calling on her supporters to save the ancient Armenian village of Kassab, whose residents fled as rebels seized control of the hamlet in late March, seemingly comparing their flight to the Armenian genocide of the early twentieth century. Her tweet prompted an onslaught of gory images of beheaded men, slain bodies and smashed churches that social media followers incorrectly attributed to the Kassab battle. In doing so, the world's most famous woman of Armenian descent, underscored how Syria's war, more than any other in history, has been waged on the internet. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Kim Kardashian wades into Syria war debate

By DIAA HADID - Associated Press

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The draft resolution of the U.N. General Assembly on Ukraine is "confrontational in nature", Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Thursday, March 27. "Russia&#8217;s attitude towards the proposed draft resolution is negative. It is confrontational in nature," he said before the vote in the U.N. General Assembly. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

EDITORIAL: Samantha Powerless on Syria genocide

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Syrian President Bashar Assad talking with soldiers with during Syrian Arab Army day in Darya, Syria. (AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Facebook, File)

Syria’s Assad plans run for third term despite raging civil war, 140K deaths

Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, March 27, 2014, Syrian government soldiers take position during clashes with rebels in Misherfeh town in the province of Latakia, Syria. Syrian forces on Thursday bombarded rebel positions with artillery and warplanes in the Mediterranean coastal province of Latakia, trying to push back opposition fighters who over the past week made rare territorial gains in President Bashar Assad's ancestral heartland. (AP Photo)

Syrian-Armenian town’s fate murky after rebel grab

By Albert Aji and Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

Obama meets with Saudi king, weighs new Syria aid

By Jim Kuhnhenn and Julie Pace - Associated Press

This undated image posted on a militant website on Jan. 4, 2014, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. With al-Qaida linked fighters and allied tribal gunmen camped on the outskirts, a tentative calm took hold over Fallujah on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 and residents started to return to the besieged city west of Baghdad. Government forces were stationed nearby as sporadic street fighting breaks out in other cities. The picture painted by residents, officials and international groups suggests that both the militants and government forces are preparing for a long standoff with civilians caught in the middle.(AP Photo via militant website)

HUSAIN: Attack on Shiite shrines in Syria may result in dramatic rise in tensions

By Rahat Husain

U.S. Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice gestures as she speaks to the media during a press conference at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, July 28, 2006. Rice said Friday that southeast Asian nations had made &quot;an important evolution&quot; in dealing with Myanmar's junta and called for the quick release of dissident Aun San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Condoleezza Rice blames Obama for ‘vacuum’ that’s led to Putin

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Residence buildings look by the Mediterranean coastline of the Latakia governorate, Syria, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Syrian rebels pressed their offensive deeper into the coastal heartland of President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect on Wednesday, battling government troops backed by warplanes for control of at least two villages in the heavily wooded and mountainous terrain, activists said. Rebels were battling government troops in the Latakia villages of Qastal Maaf and Nabaain, activists said. (AP Photo)

Activists: Syrian warplanes bomb rebels in Latakia

By ALBERT AJI and BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 24, 2014 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian soldiers carry the coffin of the commander of the pro-government National Defense Forces Hilal Assad, during his funeral at a hospital in Latakia province, Syria. State TV reported late Sunday that Hilal Assad was killed in the fighting against opposition fighters in Kassab. The commander was a member of Syrian President Bashar Assad's family but the TV did not say if they were close relatives. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian rebels battle deeper into coastal province

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

FILE - This March 20, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama making a statement on Ukraine, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. Even if Russia makes no further advances into Ukraine, can the West’s relationship with Moscow go back to business as usual? That’s the complex question underlying President Barack Obama’s discussions in Europe this week, one that poses particular challenges for the U.S. leader, whose foreign policy agenda has seemingly inextricable links to Russia. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Analysis: Russia deeply linked to Obama priorities

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson is accused of striking a deal to stall the formation of an interim Egyptian government to give Mohammed Morsi a chance to return. (Associated Press)

GOP accuses administration of having no strategy in Syria

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

This Sunday, March 23, 2014 image taken from video obtained by the anti-government activist group Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian fighter holding his weapon after seizing the predominantly Armenian Christian town of Kassab, Syria. The rebels, including militants from the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, have also wrested control of a nearby border crossing to Turkey. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels capture town near Turkish border

By RYAN LUCAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)

Libya’s guns free-for-all fuels region’s turmoil

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press