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Al-Jazeera show’s Twitter account hacked

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Monday, July 2, 2012, black smoke leaps the air from shelling near Ali bin Abi Taleb mosque in Talbiseh, the central province of Homs, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syria observer chief says violence ‘unprecedented’

Associated Press

Bodies of Turkish pilots recovered from seabed

By SELCAN HACAOGLU - 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)

Al Qaeda fighters filtering into Syria, top diplomat says

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Associated Press)

Clinton goes to France for Syria talks, then Asia

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Jihadists claim Syria attacks

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

"What we have done here is to strip away the fiction that ... those with blood on their hands can stay in power," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. (Associated Press)

Plan to end Syrian crisis hits standstill

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Assad

Assad regrets shooting of Turkish jet

The Washington Times

** FILE ** In a March 30, 2011, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, addresses the Parliament, in Damascus, Syria. A Turkish newspaper says Assad, speaking in an exclusive interview, has expressed regret over the shooting down of a Turkish jet by his forces. (AP Photo/SANA, file)

Report: Assad regrets shooting down Turkish jet

By Selcan Hacaoglu and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

“There is an opportunity before the conference of Syrian opposition today that must be seized, and I say and repeat that this opportunity must not be wasted under any circumstance.”
— Nabil Elaraby,
Arab League chief

General, 84 troops among nearly 300 fleeing to Turkey

The Washington Times

Attendees at an Arab League conference on Syria on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Cairo include (from left) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu; Khalid Al Attiya, Qatar minister of state for international cooperation; Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari; Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby; Sheik Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti foreign minister; Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr; and Palestinian envoy Nasser Al Qudwa. (AP Photo)

Syrian opposition makes new push to unite

By Aya Batrawy and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the joint special envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks during a news conference following the Action Group on Syria meeting on Saturday, June 30, 2012, in Geneva. (AP Photo/Martial Trezzini, Keystone)

Syrian opposition rejects new international plan

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

About 800 die in week, says Syrian opposition

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives June 29, 2012, for a private fundraiser in Buffalo, N.Y. (Associated Press)

Romney would support foreign friends, confront adversaries

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syrian security forces officers hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad from the windows of their building, which was destroyed after a car bomb exploded near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Syria troops regain key Damascus suburb

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she arrives for a meeting of the Action Group for Syria at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, June 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)

Syria conference leaves open Assad question

By John Heilprin and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

**FILE** Members of the Free Syrian Army are seen June 28, 2012, in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syrian troops besiege rebellious suburb

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, listens to a question during his and Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalam, unseen, news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 28, 2012. Russia is denying comments by a U.S. official that it has endorsed a Syrian transition plan that includes a call for President Bashar Assad to give up power in favor of a national unity government saying that outside forces must concentrate on convincing opposition groups to soften their demands. But, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denied that Thursday. "We are not supporting and will not support any external meddling,” he said. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Spoiler or voice of reason? Russian role In Syria

By Robert H. Reid - Associated Press

Syrians inspect burned cars June 28, 2012, at the site of a blast in the Syrian capital of Damascus. A strong explosion rocked the city near a busy market and the Palace of Justice, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. (Associated Press)

Turkey fortifies Syrian border; bomb hits Damascus

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Syrians peer at cars damaged by an explosion Thursday afternoon in Damascus near the capital's famous Hamidiyeh Market and the Palace of Justice. State TV reported at least three people were wounded and about 20 cars damaged. (Associated Press)

Turkey fortifies its border with Syria

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press