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FILE - This July 27, 2011, file image from a web posting by al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab, provided by IntelCenter, shows al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Israel on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, said it had foiled an "advanced" al-Qaida plan to carry out a suicide bombing on the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and bomb other targets, in what analysts said was the first time the global terror network's leadership has been directly involved in plotting an attack inside Israel. The Shin Bet intelligence agency said it had arrested three Palestinians who allegedly plotted bombings, shootings, kidnappings and other attacks, and that the men were recruited by an operative based in the Gaza Strip who worked for al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File)

Al Qaeda chief: Syria rebels must end infighting

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

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, shows Syrian rescue workers check the rubble of a destroyed building which was attacked by Syrian forces warplanes, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Violence across Syria as peace conference begins

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem leads his delegation during a plenary session in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday Jan. 22, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says there is no way that Syrian President Bashar Assad can be part of a transitional government that's being discussed at an international conference aimed at ending the country's brutal conflict. (AP Photo/Gary Cameron, Pool)

Syria peace talks open with bitter clash on fate of Bashar Assad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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United States Secretary of State John Kerry, left, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, join hands after their tri-lateral meeting on ending the crisis in Syria in Montreux, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. Syria's main political opposition group in exile agreed on Saturday to attend internationally sponsored peace talks, and said for the first time three rebel fighting forces also wanted to take part. (AP Photo/Gary Cameron, Pool)

Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad’s future

By Matthew Lee and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Brutality of Syria war casts doubt on peace talks

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama staunchly defends Syria policy, blasts critics’ ‘magical thinking’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The United Nations Security Council meets at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Monday morning that he will have more to say on his invitation for Iran to join this week's peace talks on Syria later in the day.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

U.N. withdraws Iran invitation to Syria talks

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

UK police arrest man on suspicion of terrorism

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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 file photo, which AP obtained from Syrian official news agency SANA and which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks during an interview with Lebanon&#8217;s Al-Mayadeen TV, at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria. With stakes high and expectations low, Syria's government and its opponents sit down face-to-face at an international peace conference this week for the first time _ muscled to the negotiating table by foreign powers that fear the bloodiest of the Arab Spring uprisings may engulf the entire region in sectarian war. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Iran to attend Syria peace talks

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sits at the 27th International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

White House: Despite easing $6 billion in sanctions, Iran not ‘open for business’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Man arrested in UK on suspicion of terrorism

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** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.S. skeptical of report the West now helping Assad fight rebel extremists

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A portrait of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri sits on his grave which is covered by flowers in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. Nearly nine years after the truck bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri shook the Middle East and awakened the seeds of Sunni-Shiite hatreds, an international tribunal begins the long awaited trial of four Hezbollah suspects Thursday. The men have not been arrested, and the Hague-based court will try them in absentia in the first such trial since World War II. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Trial of suspected Hariri assassins set to begin

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A recent wave of violence in Russia, including bombings in Volgograd on Dec. 29 and Dec. 30 (above), have stoked fears of a terror attack at the Winter Olympics in Sochi next month. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin, File)

Inside the Ring: Moscow creates 1,500-mile security zone around Sochi

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Lieberman: Obama lacks coherent anti-terror plan

By LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Turkish anti-terrorism police carried out raids in six cities on Tuesday, detaining at least five people with alleged links to al-Qaida, including an employee of a prominent Islamic charity group that provides aid to Syria, media reports and officials said.(AP Photo)

Turkish police detain al-Qaida suspects

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

** FILE ** Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo)

Turkey’s six-city raid roots out several al Qaeda suspects

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. The U.N. chief expressed deep concerns Monday over the deteriorating security situation in Iraq as an unprecedented standoff is underway between Iraqi troops and al-Qaida-linked militants in western Anbar province.(AP Photo/Ahmed Saadi, Pool)

Attacks kill 26 in Iraq during UN chief’s visit

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMEER N. YACOUB - Associated Press