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NBC’s Engel, TV crew escape abduction in Syria

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY - Associated Press

A North Korean Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launching station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video)

North Korea may see few buyers despite rocket success

By Matthew Pennington and Sam Kim - Associated Press

Syrians, who fled their homes with their families, gather around a fire to warm themselves at a makeshift vegetables store in a camp for the displaced in the village of Atmeh, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrian jets bomb Palestinian camp in Damascus

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

Iran seems to understand it cannot hang its entire strategy on the survival of Syrian President Bashar Assad (wearing sash next to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and needs to build new alliances as contingencies. Iran has proposed a plan for elections in Syria for parliament and president. (Associated Press)

Iran preparing for a Syria without Assad

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Syrians who fled their homes with their families gather around a fire to warm themselves at a makeshift vegetables store in a camp for the displaced in the village of Atmeh, Syria, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrian jets bomb Palestinian camp in Damascus

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

NBC correspondent escapes Syria kidnapping

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY - Associated Press

NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel (right) shakes hands with an unidentified man in Cilvegozu, Turkey, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, after crossing the border from Syria, where he and his crew were kidnapped by gunmen. Mr. Engel told the Turkish news agency Anadolu that he and his colleagues were "very happy to be out" and they were "very tired." (AP Photo/Anadolu via Associated Press TV)

NBC correspondent Engel, crew escape Syria kidnapping

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa talks to journalists during a joint press conference with Italian Premier Romano Prodi at the Chigi Palace in Rome in 2007. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Syrian vice president: No one can win civil war

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Free Syrian Army fighters aim their weapons as they chant slogans during clashes with government forces at a military academy besieged by the rebels near Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday. The rebels seek to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime. (Associated Press)

Rebels capture Aleppo military base

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his machine gun toward Syrian army positions during an assault on a military base in Tal Sheen, Syria, on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Syrian Islamist rebels take Aleppo infantry base

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta meets with troops at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, before boarding his plane and heading back to Washington. The Pentagon says it will send Patriot air defense missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Pentagon to send missiles, 400 troops to Turkey

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (from left), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov meet in Moscow on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo, Pool)

Russia backtracks on statement about Assad’s fall

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows damages after an explosion hit the main gate of the Syrian Interior Ministry in Damascus, Syria. Three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building Wednesday in Damascus, killing several, as rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad edged closer to the capital, the symbol of his power. (AP Photo/SANA)

Blast near Damascus kills 16, state media say

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech on Sunday, June 3, 2012, at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

Russia says Assad losing control, rebels could win

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Kurdish members of the Free Syria Army ride on a tank stolen from the Syrian army in Fafeen village, north of Aleppo, in Syria on Wednesday. The rebels have made significant gains on the ground in Damascus, Deir al-Zour and Aleppo, where they have overrun military bases. (Associated Press)

Russia says Assad is losing control

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Civil war splits Syria’s artists

By BEN HUBBARD - Associated Press

Syrian men use sledgehammers to break the concrete of a residential building in Maaret Misreen, near Idlib, Syria, on Dec. 12, 2012, while searching for belongings under the rubble. The building was destroyed in a government airstrike. (Associated Press)

Blast targets Syrian regime building in Damascus

Associated Press

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns listens to a question from a journalist at a press conference following the meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People" in Marrakech, Morocco, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Delegates from more than 100 countries gathered to pledge their support to the Syrian people as the new opposition coalition called for more concrete aid in their struggle against President Bashar Assad’s regime. The Arabic at back left reads "Syrian." (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Newly recognized Syrian coalition hits U.S. terrorist designation

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

A Free Syrian Army fighter points his weapon as he watches a Syrian Army jet (not pictured) in Fafeen village, north of Aleppo province in Syria on Dec. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

114 countries back new Syrian coalition

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Shaker Masri, 29, of Chicago was sentenced in federal court in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, for plotting to attend a training camp in Somalia to become a suicide bomber for the terrorist groups al Qaeda and al-Shabab. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)

Chicago man gets 10 years in suicide-bomber plot

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press