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This image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising from buildings after government shelling in Daraa, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Official: Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

In an image taken from undated video posted to YouTube, American freelance journalist Austin Tice, who was reporting for American news organizations in Syria until his disappearance in August, prays in Arabic and English while blindfolded in the presence of gunmen. The Associated Press could not independently confirm the origin or the content of the clip, but the Tice family released a statement to several media outlets confirming it was their son in the video. (AP Photo)

Video shows U.S. journalist held in Syria

Associated Press

Smoke rises in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday. Hezbollah commander Ali Hussein Nassif’ was killed by a roadside blast in Syria and his body was returned to Lebanon on Sunday. The bodies of other militants also have been returned to Lebanon recently. (Associated Press)

Hezbollah commander, fighters killed in Syria

Associated Press

A displaced Syrian woman and her grandson sit Sept. 30, 2012 in a refugee camp on the Turkey border, near Azaz village in Syria. (Associated Press)

Splits among rebels an obstacle in Syria conflict

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem (left) listens to his Lebanese counterpart, Adnan Mansour, at the Nonaligned Movement summit in Tehran on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Syrian minister accuses U.S. of stoking ‘terrorism’

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem accuses the media, international aid groups and other external forces of attempting to destabilize his country. (Associated Press)

Syrian Christians feel pull from both sides in civil war

By Caelainn Hogan - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Free Syrian Army fighters drink tea next to closed shops in the souk of the old city of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Car bomb kills 4 in eastern Syria

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

At least 4 in Syria killed by blast

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

** FILE ** Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

World powers push Syria’s opposition to unite

By David Stringer and Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) welcomes Nabil Elaraby (left), Head of the Arab League, during a Clinton-hosted gathering of Friends of Syria group on Sept. 28, 2012, in New York. (Associated Press)

U.S. aims to rally Syrian opposition with new aid

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Syrians who left their homes in early September to escape the fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels line up to collect water from a tanker as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing. They hoped to enter one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz. The days are getting colder now, adding to the hardships of war refugees. (Associated Press)

Syrian refugees face new crisis as winter nears

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows smoke rising from Syria's army command headquarters in Damascus, Syria,Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Twin blasts targeting Syria's army command headquarters rocked the capital on Wednesday, setting off hours of sporadic gunbattles and a raging fire inside the heavily guarded compound, state-run media and witnesses said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Twin suicide blasts strike Syrian army; 4 killed

By Albert Aji and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

**FILE** Russian President Vladimir Putin walks prior to a Sept. 26, 2012, ceremony of receiving credentials in Moscow's Kremlin. (Associated Press)

Putin condemns bloody regime change in Middle East

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks Sept. 25, 2012, at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. (Associated Press)

Morsi: Won’t rest until Syrian war ends

By Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Al-Jaafari (left) arrives for the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 25, 2012. (Associated Press)

World leaders clash over Syria

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Briefly: Iran unveils drone with range of 1,250 miles

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Mortars from Syria hit Golan, Israel says

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A Syrian family walks down a street that was destroyed in an Assad-regime airstrike earlier in the day in the al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel: Syrian mortars accidentally land in Golan

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (center), the U.N.-Arab League joint special representative for Syria, arrives for closed-door consultations on Syria at the United Nations on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp)

U.N. envoy: Syria war is threatening the region

By David Stringer and Ron DePasquale - Associated Press