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This Tuesday, March. 18, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man, injured by a government airstrike, walks outside a damaged building in Aleppo, Syria. Activists said Syrian warplanes and helicopter gunships carried out several air raids in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday killing and wounding a number of people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syrian troops and rebels clash near Turkish border

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Syrian troops stand by the Crac des Chevaliers as they take reporters on a tour a day after Syrian troops ousted rebels from the castle located near the village of Hosn, Syria, Friday, March 21, 2014. The Syrian army ousted rebels from the massive Crusader fortress after several hours of fierce fighting, killing at least 93 of them as they fled to neighboring Lebanon, an army commander told reporters on a government-led tour of the area Friday. (AP Photo)

Syrian army says 93 rebels killed fleeing castle

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a hospital in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic area in a move that was not internationally recognized. (AP Photo/Hertzel Shapira) ****ISRAEL OUT***

Israeli airstrikes kill 1 Syrian soldier, wound 7

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

Lebanese citizens ride their scooter between burning tires that were set on fire by Sunni protesters, at one of the major roadways between Beirut and the capital's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, to show their support with Sunni town of Arsal, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Gunmen from Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and local Shiite Muslim residents tightened their blockade of a Sunni town of Arsal near the Syrian border Tuesday, sparking concerns that thousands of Syrian refugees stranded in the area could be cut off from humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrian troops capture village near Lebanon border

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

A Syrian boy waves the Syrian revolutionary flag during a celebration to commemorate the second anniversary of the Syrian revolution, in Amman, Jordan, Friday, March, 15, 2013. Around a thousand Syrians gathered in front of the Syrian embassy, and chanted slogans against Assad, and the Baath regime that has ruled Syria for the last 40 years. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

U.S. closes Syrian Embassy in Washington, orders diplomats out

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A Lebanese man holds a part of an exploded rocket that hit a house in the predominately Shiite town of Labweh, near the border with Syria, northeast Lebanon, Monday March 17, 2014. Several rockets struck Labweh not far from the predominantly Sunni town of Arsal, causing damage to a house but no casualties. Residents in Labweh said the rockets were fired from Arsal raising tension between the two towns. Angry residents in Labweh closed the main road leading to Arsal with sand barriers preventing people from entering or leaving as about 20 armed Hezbollah manned the roadblocks. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrian-linked hostilities swell in Lebanon in Shiite-Sunni conflicts

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

R&B singer Chris Brown, left, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney Mark Geragos, on Monday, March 17, 2014. Brown will spend another month in jail after a judge said Monday he was told the singer made troubling comments in rehab about being good at using guns and knives. The singer was arrested on Friday, March 14, 2014, after he was dismissed from a Malibu facility where he was receiving treatment for anger management, substance abuse and issues related to bipolar disorder. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson, Pool)

Man charged in Syria plot returning to California

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

MAY: Middle East future shock

By Clifford D. May

US closes Syrian embassy in Washington

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

California man arrested in plot to fight in Syria

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Syrian government forces ride a motorcycle around the main square after being deployed in Yabroud town, Syria, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters seized a key rebel supply town on the Lebanese border on Sunday, driving them from the area and scoring a major blow against them in the three-year-old-conflict. The fall of Yabroud immediately emboldened government forces to attack nearby rebel-held towns, pressing forward in what has been nearly a yearlong advance against rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. The Syrian revolutionary flag is seen painted at right. (AP Photo)

Syrian army ousts rebels from border stronghold

By DIAA HADID and BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

Mass., Conn., RI senators want better Syria plan

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, Syria's Foreign Minister and head of the Syrian government delegation Walid al-Moallem gestures during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Lebanese security officials said Friday, March 14, that Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has been rushed to a Beirut hospital and is undergoing treatment there. The officials didn’t say when al-Moallem was brought to the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Syrian foreign minister’s heart surgery a success

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Mervat, 31, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press as she holds her 9-month-old daughter Shurouk inside their tent camp for Syrian refugees camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter’s dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Such stark malnutrition was rare in Syria in the past, but as the country’s conflict enters its fourth year, international aid workers fear malnutrition is rising among children in Syria and among refugees amid the collapse in the health care system. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Malnutrition grows among Syrian refugee children

By DIAA HADID - Associated Press

Spain, Morocco bust suspected jihadist cell

By CIARAN GILES AND PAUL SCHEMM - Associated Press

A Syrian rebel fighter watches over government troops with a piece of mirror as rebels fire rockets at a government air force compound on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Islamists have rejected the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declaring an Islamic state in the key battleground of Aleppo, though all of the groups are fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

German authorities grab suspected hardline Islamist

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Syrian president Bashar Assad, center left, visits a shelter of internally displaced people in the Damascus suburb of Adra, Syria, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (Associated Press)

Syria’s Assad makes rare public appearance on civil war frontlines

Associated Press

** FILE ** President Barack participates in a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Esperanza Resort in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, June 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Reset? What reset? U.S.-Russia ties at worst since Cold War

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, May 6, 2013 file photo, an obstetrician holds a baby after delivery at the Moroccan field hospital in Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan. An international charity organization Save Children has warned Monday, March 10, 2014 of a health care disaster in Syria with newborns dying in hospital incubators during power cuts and children having their limbs amputated for lack of alternative treatment. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Report: Syrian health care on brink of collapse

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press