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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and U.N. envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian foreign minister says Assad won’t go

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria, on Dec. 27, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Activists say airstrike in north Syria kills 14

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) welcomes his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Amr prior to a meeting in Moscow on Dec. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)

Russia reaches out to Syrian coalition

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria, on Dec. 27, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels step up siege of northern airbase

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.N. Arab League deputy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.N. envoy, Moscow call for revival of Syria plan

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, who headed Syria's military police, announces on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, that he is joining "the people's revolution." The general the one of the highest-ranking officials to have defected from President Bashar Assad's regime. (AP Photo/Al Arabiya via AP video)

Syrian minister leaves Beirut for fear of arrest

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this image from video aired on Al Arabiya TV on Tuesday, Syrian Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal says he is joining “the people’s revolution.” (Associated Press)

Syria’s interior minister flees from Beirut hospital

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrians help a wounded man after a government airstrike hit the Hama suburb of Halfaya, Syria, on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, in this image taken from video that has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels fully capture town near Turkish border

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (left), an envoy of the United Nations and Arab League, visits Monday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus in an effort to find a way out of the civil war that activists say has killed more than 40,000 people. (Associated Press)

U.N. envoy worried after talks with Syria’s Assad

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

This Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, image taken from video that has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting shows a Syrian man carrying an elderly woman after a government airstrike hit the Hama suburb of Halfaya, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

U.N. envoy worried after talks with Syria’s Assad

Associated Press

World Briefs: Airstrikes kill scores during envoy’s visit

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Lakhdar Brahimi, joint special representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, answers media questions after consultations at U.N. headquarters on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.N. envoy in Damascus to push Syria peace plan

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

**FILE** Syrian Orthodox Christians attend Easter Mass in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Syria's population of more than 22 million, say they are particularly vulnerable to the violence that has been sweeping the country since March 2011. They are fearful that the country will become another Iraq, with Christians caught in the crossfire between rival Islamic groups. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Syrian Christians fear bleak future after Assad

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

Syrian protesters carry a large revolution flag and chant slogans during a demonstration in Aleppo, Syria, where young people and children sang songs against President Bashar Assad and his regime on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginie Nguyen Hoang)

Syrian airstrike kills at least 60 people as international envoy visits

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual hours-long news conference in Moscow on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin: Russia recognizes need for change in Syria

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

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

U.N.: Syrian civil war increasingly sectarian

By Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

A boy runs for cover after a mortar shell hit a street and killed several people in the Bustan Al-Qasr district of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Syrian troops battle rebels in Damascus suburbs

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

Another member of NBC team free after Syria kidnap

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Gen. Salim Idris, who defected from the Syrian army in July, speaks during an interview in Antakya, Turkey, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Syrian rebels fear chemical weapons

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Final member of NBC team free after Syria kidnap

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press