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**FILE** Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi (left) talks Aug. 31, 2012, with Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, under a portrait of Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during their meeting in Tehran. (Associated Press/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

State Dept. disses Iran in group on Syrian peace

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syrian rebel fighters raise their weapons Sept. 10, 2012, as they head to fight government forces in Suran, Syria, on the outskirts of Aleppo. (Associated Press)

Syrian defector says opposition can win

By Bassem Mroue and Greg Keller - Associated Press

**FILE** FSA soldiers go to the front line in Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 9, 2012. (Associated Press)

Syria raises death toll in Aleppo blast to 30

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian rebel fighters raise their weapons as they head to fight government forces near Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. A prominent defector says the opposition can oust the regime if given international aid. (Associated Press)

Car bomb death toll in Syria at 30; new envoy arriving

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi ( left) meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo on Monday. Mr. Brahimi, who is tasked with brokering a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict, replaced Kofi Annan, who stepped down in August in frustration after his six-point peace plan collapsed. Mr. Morsi also is seeking to end the bloodshed in Syria. (Associated Press)

New Egypt leader has big plans for revival

By Sarah Lynch - Special to The Washington Times

Free Syrian Army soldiers help a severely wounded colleague after he was shot by a Syrian army sniper in the Izaa district of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Jordanian militant warns of attacks in Syria

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

Then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the arrival ceremony for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok, Russia, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool) ** FILE **

Clinton: Deep differences with Russia on Syria

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. John McCain answers reporters' questions during a meeting on World Economy in Cernobbio, Italy, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Experts and leaders gathered in Italy to discuss the prolonged crisis in a structurally flawed Europe, political dysfunction pushing America off a 'fiscal cliff' and the emerging economies slowdown drying up the last engine of global growth. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu)

McCain: Iran situation a ‘train wreck’

By Dan Perry - Associated Press

Syrian child, Taybah Al-Hajji, 1, whose family fled their home in Aleppo 15 days ago due to Syrian government shelling, sits next to her one month old brother Abdulghani, sleeping in a child safety seat covered with a mosquito net, as they take refuge with their family at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

French direct aid a dubious break for Syria rebels

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

Newly-arrived Syrian refugee families receive food from the Jordanian military after they crossed the border from Tal Shehab city in Syria, through the Al Yarmouk River valley, into Thnebeh town, in Ramtha , Jordan, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. More than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August, the highest monthly total since the crisis began in March 2011, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Syrian troops retake town near Jordan

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and other leaders, but a session with leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping was canceled Wednesday without explanation by her hosts. (Associated Press)

Chinese rebuff Clinton on Syria

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (left) meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

U.S. senators warn Iraq over Iran shipments to Syria

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Amjad Al-Saleh, a Syrian child suffering from food poisoning, is comforted by his mother as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near Azaz, Syria, on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in hopes of entering a refugee camp in Turkey. The Al-Saleh family left their home in Marea, Syria, 11 days before when government forces shelled their house. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

U.S. provides more aid for Syrian refugees

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Syrian child who fled her home in Aleppo with her family because of fighting between the rebels and the Syrian army, rests Wednesday at a school where she and her family took refuge, in Suran, Syria. (Associated Press)

Turkey, Egypt hit Assad for ‘terrorism’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ghassan Khalil, 30, holds his son Mahmoud, 2, who has a fever, Monday at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing. He fled his home in Marea 12 days earlier after government forces shelled it and hopes to enter a Turkish refugee camp. (Associated Press)

August toll in Syria: 100,000 lose homes, 5,000 killed

By Bassem Mroue and John Heilprin - Associated Press

Ghassan Khalil, 30, who fled his home in Marea, Syria, 12 days before because of government shelling of his house, holds his sleeping son Mahmoud, 2, who suffers with a fever, as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near Azaz, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in hopes of entering a refugee camp in Turkey. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

U.N.: 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) meets with Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Mr. Assad told Mr. Maurer that the Red Cross is welcome to operate on the ground in the country as long as it remains "neutral and independent," the SANA state news agency reported. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria’s Assad holds talks with Red Cross chief

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forged a means of cohabitation with the military, which once sparred openly with the government over the direction of the country. (Associated Press)

Military key to Syria planning

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

Syrian planes bomb town, kill 19

By combined dispatches

** FILE ** U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Lakhdar Brahimi, the newly appointed joint special representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, at United Nations headquarters on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp)

Airstrikes in Syria kill at least 18 people

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press