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Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus on Sunday. He denied responsibility for the massacre in Houla last month. (Associated Press)

Assad defends bloody response

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (left) greets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she arrives for meetings at Rosenbad in Stockholm on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Erik Martensson)

Clinton steps up pressure on Russia over Syria

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to parliament in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria’s Assad likens bloody crackdown to surgery

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News and accessed Saturday, May 5, 2012, a U.N. observer, right, inspects what residents of the town of Taftanaz, Syria, tell him is a mass grave. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

U.N. official says no to Syria amnesty

By Don Melvin - Associated Press

Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, speaks June 1, 2012, during a press conference after his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the governmental palace in Beirut. (Associated Press)

Annan ‘impatient and frustrated’ over Syria

By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

**FILE** Syrian security forces (in background) hold their machine guns and surround anti-Syrian regime mourners April 30, 2012, during the funeral procession in Damascus, Syria, for the activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by the Syrian security forces. (Associated Press)

U.N. rights body condemns Syria over Houla massacre

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video, released by the Houla Media Office and accessed May 31, 2012, purports to show 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed, a survivor of the Houla massacre that began Friday and left 108 people dead, many of them children and women. Houla is a collection of poor farming villages and olive groves in Syria's central Homs province. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

By Bassem Mroue and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in a forum with students at the Royal Library in Copenhagen on Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Clinton: Military action in Syria demands unity

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Syria blames rebels for Houla massacre

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

A Lebanese Red Cross volunteer, left, treats a Syrian injured man who was shot in his leg by the Syrian border guard when he was crossing a river from Syria into Lebanon. He is seen on the ground, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, in Akkar, north Lebanon, Wednesday May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

For Obama and Romney, Syria is no-win situation

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

In this citizen journalism image taken on May 29, 2012, and provided by Edlib News Network ENN, a Syrian girl sits atop of a U.N. observers vehicle during a demonstration in Kfarnebel, Idlib province in northern Syria. (Associated Press/Edlib News Network ENN)

Syria blames rebels for Houla massacre

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

U.N. chief warns Syria; regime again shells Houla

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney

U.S. stands firm against intervention in Syria

By Anne Gearan - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets May 29, 2012, with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

U.N. rights body to hold session on Syrian massacre

Associated Press

A Lebanese man (right) helps a Syrian family on Wednesday after they were shot by a Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria into Lebanon at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled in Akkar. (Associated Press)

U.N. observers find corpses

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets with former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.N. observers in Syria discover 13 bound corpses

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A frame grab from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday, May 28, 2012, purports to show the massacre in Houla on Friday that killed more than 100 people, many of them children. (AP Photo/Amateur video via AP Video)

U.N.: Most of 108 killed in Syria were executed

By Ben Hubbard and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday purports to show the bodies of a man and a girl on the hood of a United Nations observer vehicle following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria. The Syrian government denied Sunday its troops were behind the attack in which at least 108 people were killed. (Shaam News Networks via Associated Press)

Diplomats from Syria expelled by U.S., allies

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

British Foreign Secretary William Hague (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Syrian diplomats around the world expelled

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image taken Saturday purports to show casualties of the assault on villages in Houla, Syria, that left more than 90 people dead. The Syrian government denied responsibility and said that its troops were targeted as well. (Shaam News Network via Associated Press)

Syria denies responsibility in attacks that killed 108

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press