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Activists: Syrian rebels repel attack on town

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

** FILE ** This frame-grabbed image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group, an U.S. private terrorist-threat-analysis company, purports to show al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri on a Web posting on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/SITE Intel Group)

Al Qaeda urges Muslims to help Syrian rebels

By Lara Jakes - Associated Press

The Syrian flag and a sign in Arabic that reads "the Syrian Arabic Republic" mark the empty chair of the Syrian representative during the Arab League Syria Group and foreign ministers meeting Sunday in Cairo. The group is seeking to halt the bloodshed in the rebellion against President Bashar Assad. (Associated Press)

Arab League seeks U.N. monitor

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

The Arab League's Syria group meets in Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, as the league considers a proposal to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab Muslim nations and the United Nations, officials from the 22-member group said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Arab League wants U.N. peacekeepers in Syria

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian rescue workers remove wreckage from the Syrian military intelligence building at a security compound which was attacked by an explosion, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on Friday Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian army general assassinated in Damascus

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

** FILE ** A Syrian tank is seen in Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo)

Syria says suicide bombers kill 28 in Aleppo

By Albert Aji and Lee Keath - Associated Press

A Syrian flag flies in front of a large banner of President Bashar Assad as demonstrators rally in support of the Assad regime in Damascus, Syria, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

EDITORIAL: Homage to Homs

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

A Syrian rebel peers through a window in Idlib, Syria, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo)

Suffering deepens in bombarded Syrian city of Homs

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Briefly

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Members of the Free Syrian Army train Feb. 7, 2012, outside Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)

U.S. searches for strategy to halt Syria violence

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

A Syrian rebel stands guard Feb. 8, 2012, at a street in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)

EU threatens new sanctions on Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrians gather Feb. 8, 2012, in Doha to protest the use of Russia's veto against the amended resolution on Syria in the U.N. Security Council. (Associated Press)

Critics slam Obama’s handling of Arab Spring

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A Syrian rebel evacuates an injured fellow rebel during an exchange of fire with army troops in Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday. The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said, as Russia tried to broker talks to end the violence. (Associated Press)

Assad presses assault on Homs

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. John McCain (Associated Press)

McCain calls for U.S. to consider arming Syrian protesters

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This image taken from video filmed over the past several days by an independent cameraman and made available Feb. 7, 2012, shows an injured man leaving hospital being helped by friends on the street in the Bab Amr neighborhood of Homs, Syria. (Associated Press/APTN)

U.S. not considering arming Syrian opposition

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

A pro-Syrian regime protester (left), holding a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah with Arabic that reads "Hezbollah", cheers a convoy believed to be transporting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Damascus, Syria, on Feb. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

Russian FM in Syria amid escalating violence

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

A member of the Free Syrian Army stands guard Monday during a rally of anti-regime demonstrators in Idlib, Syria. The U.S. closed its embassy in Syria, and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in an escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power. (Associated Press)

U.S. shuts embassy in Syria as Obama tells Assad to go

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Anti-Syrian regime protesters play drums and wave a revolutionary flag Feb. 6, 2012, during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)

State Department closes U.S. Embassy in Syria

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Sunday in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she says the international community must stop the bloodshed in Syria. (Associated Press)

Clinton implores ‘friends of Syria’ to rebuke Assad

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)

Moscow’s support for Assad well-calculated

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press