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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta attends a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Panetta: U.S. sends forces to Jordan’s border with Syria

By Lollita C. Baldor and Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press

British police investigate 2 in journalist kidnapping

By Gregory Katz - Associated Press

NATO behind Turkey to hit back at Syria

By Barbara Surk And Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

NATO backs Turkey in standoff with Syria

By Frank Jordans and Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

Blindfolded and handcuffed suspected al Qaeda members are led away to detention centers in an Iraqi army base in Hillah, Iraq, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, on Friday, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

Al Qaeda making comeback in Iraq, officials say

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

The Turkish military guards the border with Syria at a station in Akcakale, Turkey, across from Syrian-rebel-controlled Tel Abyad town (right), on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo)

Turkey retaliates for 6th day of Syrian shelling

By Bassem Mroue and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivers a foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Romney: U.S. should be more assertive on world stage

By Kasie Hunt and Steve Peoples - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, a Syrian revolutionary flag waves on top of a building on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Syria's conflict is the most violent to emerge from last year's Arab Spring. The protests started peacefully but prompted a brutal crackdown by President Bashar Assad's government. The fighting has escalated into a civil war that has killed just over 30,000 people over the last year and a half, according to activists. Despite intervening in Libya, the United States has steered clear of taking military action or arming Syria's rebels. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Syria strife lures in militants from Libya

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) walks with Peruvian Defense Minister Pedro Cateriano (left) past an honor guard during a ceremony at army headquarters in Lima, Peru, on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Panetta: Syrian clash with Turkey may escalate

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

The Turkish military guards the border with Syria at a station in Akcakale, Turkey, across from Syrian-rebel-controlled Tel Abyad town (right), on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo)

Turkey returns fire at Syria

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“We want peace,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says after a Syrian mortar attack kills five. (Associated Press)

Turkey vows to protect its people after Syrian shelling

By Louise Osborne and Jacob Resneck - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, photo, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, and his deputies Bulent Arinc, right, and Besir Atalay seen at Turkey's parliament in Ankara, Turkey. (AP Photo)

Turkish PM doesn’t want war with Syria

By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Frazer - Associated Press

Protesters hold banners that read "No to War" during a debate at Turkey's parliament in Ankara, Turkey, on Oct. 4, 2012, after Turkey fired on Syrian targets for a second straight day. Turkey said it has no intention of declaring war, despite rising tensions after deadly shelling from Syria killed five civilians in a Turkish border town. (Associated Press)

Head of U.N. alarmed by Turkey-Syria tensions

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Embassy Row: ‘Squarely’ on Assad

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pentagon press secretary George Little (center) takes part in an audio news conference with Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Clark of the Air Force Special Operations Command (pictured on a television top right) at the Pentagon on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Pentagon voices support for Turkey in skirmish with Syria

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Smoke rises over the Saif Al Dawla district in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Turkey fires at Syria after deadly shelling

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security officers gather at the scene in front of destroyed buildings where triple bombs exploded at the Saadallah al-Jabri square, in Aleppo city, Syria, Wednesday Oct. 3, 2012. Three powerful explosions rocked the main square in a government-controlled central district of Aleppo on Wednesday, the Syrian state-run TV said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Suicide bombings kill 34 in Syrian city of Aleppo

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

** FILE ** Israeli soldiers conduct a military exercise in the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights, captured from neighboring Syria in the 1967 war, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli military: Armed Syrians approach border

By Ian Deitch

FILE - In this March 30, 2012 file photo, a Hamas security officer tries to prevent protesters from reaching Erez crossing during a march heading towards the border with Israel in the northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

Hamas is abandoned in divided Mideast support

By Naser Najjar - Special to The Washington Times