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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian security force inspects the scene after a bomb ripped through the third floor of the state TV building in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. The bomb shattered several offices and wounded several employees, Syrian TV said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Aide: Syrian PM’s break months in planning

By Brian Murphy and Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

A Free Syrian Army soldier fires his weapon during clashes with Syrian government forces in the Saladin neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday. An activist in Damascus said rebels are increasingly using a tactic of quick-hit attacks to frustrate security forces and keep the capital and other locations unstable. (Associated Press)

Syrian forces vow to battle for Aleppo

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

In this Thursday Aug. 2, 2012 photograph, Syrian rebel fighters man an improvised checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo)

Gunmen kidnap Iranians just outside Syrian capital

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

The Washington Times

EIBNER: Islamic extremists threaten Syria’s Christians

By John Eibner

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2012 photo, a Syrian medic helps a wounded man in Maarat Misrin, Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo)

Mortars kill at least 20 in Damascus refugee camp

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

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

U.N. General Assembly denounces Syrian crackdown

By Peter James Spielmann - Associated Press

Reuters says blogging platform hacked

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Illustration: Jihad by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Obama arming al Qaeda

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2012 photo, a Syrian medic helps a wounded man in Maarat Misrin, Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo)

U.S. sends $12M in new aid for Syrian refugees

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Free Syrian Army soldiers sit on a sidewalk at the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. (AP Photo)

Rebels use captured tank against Syrian forces

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

**FILE** Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks June 30, 2012, during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva. (Associated Press/Keystone)

Annan quits as Syrian envoy

By Stewart Stogel - The Washington Times

**FILE** Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks June 30, 2012, during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva. (Associated Press/Keystone)

Kofi Annan to step down as Syria envoy

Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed July 31, 2012, purports to show black smoke rising from buildings in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

Where’s Assad? Mystery deepens about Syrian leader

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Syrian rebels rest in a pickup truck Saturday in Aleppo. “Life in Aleppo has become unbearable. ... There’s shelling night and day, every day,” said a Syrian writer who spoke via telephone on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Iran is Syria’s only remaining ally in the Middle East after 17 months of fighting. (Associated Press)

Alawites spurned by rebels in Syria

By Michael Gunn - Special to The Washington Times

This image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed July 30, 2012, purports to show Free Syrian Army soldiers in Anadan 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

Humanitarian problems grow in besieged Aleppo

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed July 29, 2012, shows a Syrian military tank in Daraa, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian envoy to London defects amid Aleppo fight

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Syrian rebels rest in a pickup truck Saturday in Aleppo. “Life in Aleppo has become unbearable. ... There’s shelling night and day, every day,” said a Syrian writer who spoke via telephone on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Iran is Syria’s only remaining ally in the Middle East after 17 months of fighting. (Associated Press)

Rebels pounded, but hold ground in Aleppo

By combined dispatches

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (Associated Press)

Panetta heads to Mideast; Syria high on the agenda

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

In this October, 2001 file photo the Pyotr Velikiy, Peter the Great, Russian nuclear-powered missile cruiser seen near Severomorsk, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Russia seeks sea power with decrepit fleet

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times