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Vice President Joseph R. Biden delivers a speech at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wis., on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Biden says Romney set for ‘war’

By Philip Elliott - Associated Press

In this image made from video and accessed on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, Free Syrian Army fighters engage with government troops in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo via AP Video)

UNICEF says 1,600 killed in Syria last week

By Bassem Mroue and Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

This image made from video provided by Shaam News Network and accessed via AP video purports to show a demonstration in Aleppo, Syria, on Aug. 31, 2012. Syrian rebels have begun a major operation in the Aleppo region, aiming to strike at security compounds and bases around Syria's largest city, activists said. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels launch new operation in Aleppo

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (second right) welcomes Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi for the opening session of the Nonaligned Movement summit in Tehran on Aug. 30, 2012. (Associated Press/Iranian Presidency Office)

Egypt leader slams Syrian regime during Iran visit

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

Syrian men rest on the rubble of a shop destroyed by Syrian government forces shelling on Aug. 30, 2012, while waiting their turn to buy bread from a bakery shop in the Syrian town of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo. (Associated Press)

Syrian activists say rebels shot down warplane

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrians, who fled their homes due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, shout slogans as they march toward the Turkish side of the border, during a protest asking the Turkish government to let them enter to their refugee camps, at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Assad acknowledges struggle to defeat rebels

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. Iraq's Prime Minister is defending a decision to ban hundreds of candidates from the upcoming election, saying that it would not hurt Sunni turnout for next Sunday's vote. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Inside the Ring: Iraq backing Iran

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Aug. 28, 2012, Syrian men stand near a burning car due to shelling in Kfarnebel, Idlib province, northern Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian opposition leader criticizes U.S.

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image from Aug. 26, 2012, provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show victims killed by shabiha pro-government militiamen being buried in a mass grave in Daraya, Syria. According to activists' accounts, government forces retook the Damascus suburb of Daraya from rebel control three days prior and went on a killing spree. Reports of the death toll range widely from more than 300 to as many as 600. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network)

Syrian helicopter downed in Damascus clashes

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Alaeddin Boroujerdi (left), head of Iran's powerful parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, meets with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012.
Mr. al-Sharaa's appearance at the meeting ended rumors that he had defected to Jordan. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Mass burials in Damascus suburb amid massacre report

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

**FILE** In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed July 23, 2012, a Free Syrian Army soldier looks at a military tank caught on fire during clashes with Syrian government troops in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

Russia: We have Syrian guarantees on chemical arms

By Lynn Berry - Associated Press

A Syrian man smokes a cigarette Aug. 22, 2012, while sitting next to the rubble of a damaged mosque in the city of Azaz, Syria, on the outskirts of Aleppo. (Associated Press)

Fighting across Syria as last U.N. monitors leave

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Infrastructure problems disrupt Internet to Syria

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

World Briefs: Government troops fight rebels in Damascus suburb

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks to American service members with the International Security Assistance Forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/D. Myles Cullen, Department of Defense)

Joint Chiefs chairman’s visit to Iraq includes talks on Syria

Associated Press

Chinese company keeps Syria connected to Internet

By PETER SVENSSON - Associated Press

Firefighters battle the blaze as vehicles burn after a blast near a police station in Gaziantep, Turkey, on Monday. Nine people were killed and dozens were wounded amid an escalation in fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces. (Associated Press)

Explosion kills nine in Turkey; Kurdish militants deny responsibility

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

**FILE** In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed July 23, 2012, a Free Syrian Army soldier looks at a military tank caught on fire during clashes with Syrian government troops in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

Obama says his ‘red line’ in Syria conflict is WMD

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

On Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, Syrians Bassem Kharfani (left) and Mahmoud Jikar sit at the door of Mr. Jikar's house, one of more than a dozen homes destroyed in a Syrian government bombardment last week that killed more than 40 people in Azaz, Syria. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)

Syrian forces kill 23 rebels in town near Damascus

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign affairs minister who was named Friday as the new U.N. envoy for Syria, gives an interview to the Associated Press in Paris on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Intense fighting rages in Syria’s Aleppo and Daraa

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press