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FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, file photo, shows a barge anchored alongside the MV Cape Ray in Portsmouth, Va. The American ship MV Cape Ray is set to arrive Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, at the naval base of Rota on Spain’s southwestern coast used by the U.S. to resupply ahead of an unprecedented mission to collect and destroy mustard gas, raw materials for sarin nerve gas and tons of other highly toxic chemicals that form part of Syria’s chemical weapons program. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

US ship on Syria chemical arms mission in Spain

By MIKE CORDER and MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, file photo, shows a barge anchored alongside the MV Cape Ray in Portsmouth, Va. The American ship MV Cape Ray is set to arrive Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, at the naval base of Rota on Spain’s southwestern coast used by the U.S. to resupply ahead of an unprecedented mission to collect and destroy mustard gas, raw materials for sarin nerve gas and tons of other highly toxic chemicals that form part of Syria’s chemical weapons program. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

U.S. chemical arms ship arrives in Spain ahead of mission to destroy Syrian WMD

Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, hold up his portraits as they march during a demonstration is solidarity with government forces, in al-Inshaat neighborhood of Homs, Syria, Wednesday Feb. 11, 2014. Meanwhile the Syrian government on Tuesday allowed over a hundred men of fighting age to leave rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Homs after they were questioned and cleared of rebel links, state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Analysis: In peace talks, Assad plays for time

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

French President Francois Hollande listens as President Barack Obama speaks during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, during a state visit. Lauding the "enduring alliance" between the United States and France, President Barack Obama on Tuesday welcomed President Francois Hollande to the White House for a lavish state visit. The highly anticipated trip is taking place amid swirling speculation on both sides of the Atlantic about problems in Hollande's personal life. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama, Hollande hit Moscow over Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Egypt's security forces look through the shuttered windshield of a vehicle damaged after bomb explosions targeted at a checkpoint in Giza, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. Twin homemade bombs targeting a police checkpoint wounded several people on a bridge in Cairo's twin city of Giza Friday morning, the latest apparent attack by militants near the center of the Egyptian capital. (AP Photo/El Shorouk, Aly Hazzaa) EGYPT OUT

Violence risks turning Egypt to jihadi front

By LEE KEATH - Associated Press

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson holds up his New York subway card after giving his first major address, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at the Wilson Center in Washington. The civil war in Syria has become a matter of U.S. homeland security over concerns about a small number of Americans who have gone to fight with Syrian rebels and returned home, new Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US: Syria conflict a threat to homeland

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, a citizen journalism image provided by the United Media Office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the United Nations investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be a chemical rocket, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)

U.N. tells Syria to hurry on chemical weapons disposal

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, displaced Syrian children gather barefoot in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by President Bashar Assad's forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him, according to a new United Nations report, posted on the U.N. website late Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

UN: ‘Unspeakable suffering’ for Syria’s children

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

In this May 28, 2007 file photo, a young boy seeks shelter behind a soldier with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division after gunshots rang out at the scene where just a few minutes earlier a suicide car bomber blew himself up in a busy commercial district in central Baghdad. killing at least 21 people and wounding 66. In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives later, the objective now is simply to get out _ and leave behind a country where democracy has at least a chance, where Iran does not dominate and where conditions may not be good but "good enough." (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

U.S. sees global terror network aiding Iraq attacks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying a wounded child following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Feb. 3, 2013. Syrian government helicopters and warplanes unleashed a wave of airstrikes on more than a dozen opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, firing missiles and dropping crude barrel bombs in a ferocious attack that killed at least 36 people, including children, activists said. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syrian forces drop ‘barrel bomb’ filled with fuel, scrap metal on mosque

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, center, is congratulated by Vice President Joe Biden, right, during the ceremonial swearing-in as the 68th secretary of state at the State Department in Washington,. Witnessing the ceremony are Kerry’s daughters Vanessa Kerry, obscured, and Alexandra Kerry, back center, and stepson Christopher Heinz, back right. Kerry has spent nearly half of his first year as secretary of state jumping on and off airplanes and diving headlong into some of the world’s most difficult problems. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Diplomacy a contact sport in Kerry’s first year

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves while boarding his plane at Franz-Josef-Strauss Airport in Munich, southern Germany, on Sunday Feb. 2, 2014. Kerry was in the Bavarian capital to attend the Munich Security Conference. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski,Pool)I

Secret meeting shocker: John Kerry admits Syria policy is failing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian residents and rescue workers carry a body from a building damaged by the Syrian forces airplanes in the neighborhood of Qadi Askar in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. The Aleppo Media Center said the air raid killed and wounded several people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

US says Syria must comply with chemical arms deal

By RYAN LUCAS - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday Jan. 2, 2014 file photo shows a barge is anchored alongside the the M/V Cape Ray in Portsmouth, Va., Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. The M/V Cape Ray departed Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 on a mission to destroy dozens of containers of deadly chemical weapons being removed from Syria as part of international efforts to dismantle that country's poison gas and nerve agent program. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Chemical weapons watchdog discusses Syria mission

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens at left as CIA Director John Brennan, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on current and projected national security threats against the US. Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is at right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Intelligence leaks top terrorism in threat assessment

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Members of Ahrar al-Sham brigade, one of the Syrian rebels groups, exercise in a train camp at unknown place in Syria. The growing muscle of an al Qaeda linked Syrian group is casting a grim shadow over northern Syria, where extremist militants have turned their attention to seizing activists who cover their country. (AP Photo)

U.S. restarts aid to Syria, hoping al Qaeda won’t seize it again

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

US ship to help destroy Syrian chemical weapons

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures as speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Leaders gathered in the Swiss ski resort of Davos have made it a top priority to push to reshape the global economy and cut global warming by shifting to cleaner energy sources. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Iran’s heavyweight absence hangs over Syria talks

By Lee Keath and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

PIPES: The Middle East mightily resists efforts to prod modernization

By Daniel Pipes