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** FILE ** In this Monday, Dec. 23, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns as he sits in the rubble of buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian airstrike kills 21 in Aleppo: report

Associated Press

** 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)

Calif. man pleads guilty to terror charges, aiding al Qaeda in Syria

Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, a Shiite fighter clashes with members of the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebel in the town of Hatita, in the countryside of Damascus, Syria. A leading Shiite Muslim cleric widely followed by Iraqi militants has issued the first public religious edict permitting Shiites to fight in Syria&#8217;s civil war alongside President Bashar Assad&#8217;s forces. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo, File)

LAMBRO: More trouble on an old bubble

By Donald Lambro

This undated photo provided by Iraqi government intelligence officials on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013 shows Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani. Iraqi intelligence officials that the shadowy leader of the powerful al-Qaida group fighting in Syria has sought to kidnap United Nations workers. The officials say they obtained the information about al-Golani, after capturing members of another al-Qaida group and that men gave them the first known photograph of al-Golani and letters written by the militant leader. (AP Photo/Iraqi Government)

Al Qaeda leader targeting U.N. workers in Syria

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a destroyed building after a Syrian aircraft pummeled masaken hanano, an opposition neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Activists: Syrian helicopters bomb northern town

By Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syria has become a focal point for the State Department in the war on terrorism as al Qaeda-linked groups operating there — specifically the al-Nusrah Front — have expansionist aspirations. (Aleppo Media Center AMC via Associated Press)

State Department adds two to terrorist list, notes al Qaeda splits

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters (not pictured) in the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula, Syria, northeast of the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Heavy fighting flared as government troops tried to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to al Qaeda, from the hilltop enclave that they broke into last week. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.S. adds al Qaeda-linked Lebanon militant leader to global terrorist list

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, is greeted by Deputy Defense Minister Salman bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, right, after he arriving at Riyadh Air Base on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Secretary Hagel made a brief stop in Saudi Arabia to meet with military officials and the Crown Prince. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

U.S. downplays Saudi prince’s criticism of Obama’s Middle East policies

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** File ** Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria, Dec 17, 2012. (Associated Press)

Suicide central: Syria a magnet for youth seeking ‘death as a path to life’

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

Prof. Ake Sellstr&#246;m, left, head of the U.N. mission to investigate allegations of the use of chemical weapons in the Syria, listens U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon makes a statement after receiving a report from the mission on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

U.N. inspectors confirm Syria chemical attack, lack evidence to assign blame

Associated Press

This image made on a government-organized media tour for local journalists shows a Syrian national flag hanging on a chain barrier as people return to the western town of Nabek, which Syrian troops took full control of a day earlier after taking the nearby highway that links the capital, Damascus, Syria, with the central city of Homs, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. State media said that the capture of the town comes as the government forges ahead with a punishing offensive in a mountainous region near the border with Lebanon. (AP Photo)

U.S. suspends aid to northern Syrian rebels after al Qaeda seizes supplies

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks during an interview with Italy's RAI News 24 TV at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Mr. Assad said his government will abide by last week's U.N. resolution calling for the country's chemical weapons program to be dismantled and destroyed. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.S., Britain to halt non-lethal aid to Syrian opposition

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this photo taken on May 24, 2012, Spanish reporters Javier Espinosa, right, and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, left, pose for a photo during the ceremony of the Miguel Gil journalisms awards in Barcelona, Spain. Spanish newspaper El Mundo says one of its reporters and a freelance photographer are being held hostage in Syria by a group linked to al Qaeda. (AP Photo/Joan Borras)

Spanish journalists kidnapped by al Qaeda group in Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ahmet Uzumcu (right), director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of his organization from Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, at City Hall in Oslo on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Cornelius Poppe/NTB scanpix)

Chemical-weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize

By Karl Ritter and Hils Myklebost - 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)

Scientists raise alarm over plan to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons at sea

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, is greeted by Deputy Defense Minister Salman bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, right, after he arriving at Riyadh Air Base on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Secretary Hagel made a brief stop in Saudi Arabia to meet with military officials and the Crown Prince. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

Hagel renews Qatar defense pact despite differences over Iran, Syria

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen, authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man helping a woman as she mourns over the dead bodies of children after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists in Arbeen town in Damascus on Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian regime forces fired intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday on the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus, in what two pro-opposition groups claimed was a "poisonous gas" attack that killed dozens of people. (Associated Press/Local Committee of Arbeen)

Obama lied about Syrian chemical attack, ‘cherry-picked’ intelligence: report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this file image taken from Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in an unidentified location in Latakia province, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video, File)

Syria mess may spawn ‘Islamic emirate’ world must deal with, says Iraq’s top diplomat

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)

Pentagon plans to destroy Syrian chemical arms on ship at sea

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican (Associated Press)

Syria nightmare: Fresh fears about al Qaeda fighters there returning home as sleeper terrorists

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times