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Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

WILLIAMS: Syria: Pick your poison or pass the cup

By Armstrong Williams

Free Syrian Army fighters take their positions during clashes with government forces in Qusair, in Syria's Homs province, on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Syrian government troops battled rebels in several areas outside Damascus on Sunday while regime warplanes bombed opposition-held areas around the capital, including an airstrike on one village that killed at least seven people, activists said. (AP Photo/Yong Homsi Lens)

Syrian airstrike kills at least 7 near Damascus

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Syrians run to aid the injured in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government warplanes on the residential neighborhood of Maadamiyeh, south of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syria bombs Damascus suburbs to keep rebels out

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

NBC crew’s captors appeared loyal to Syria regime

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Syrians, who fled their homes with their families, gather around a fire to warm themselves at a makeshift vegetables store in a camp for the displaced in the village of Atmeh, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrian jets bomb Palestinian camp in Damascus

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

NBC’s Engel, TV crew escape abduction in Syria

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY - Associated Press

Syrians who fled their homes with their families gather around a fire to warm themselves at a makeshift vegetables store in a camp for the displaced in the village of Atmeh, Syria, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrian jets bomb Palestinian camp in Damascus

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

NBC correspondent escapes Syria kidnapping

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY - Associated Press

NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel (right) shakes hands with an unidentified man in Cilvegozu, Turkey, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, after crossing the border from Syria, where he and his crew were kidnapped by gunmen. Mr. Engel told the Turkish news agency Anadolu that he and his colleagues were "very happy to be out" and they were "very tired." (AP Photo/Anadolu via Associated Press TV)

NBC correspondent Engel, crew escape Syria kidnapping

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (from left), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov meet in Moscow on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo, Pool)

Russia backtracks on statement about Assad’s fall

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Civil war splits Syria’s artists

By BEN HUBBARD - Associated Press

In this image taken from video that has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from a building after an air attack in Homs, Syria, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syria cuts Internet access throughout the country

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

In an image taken from undated video posted to YouTube, American freelance journalist Austin Tice, who was reporting for American news organizations in Syria until his disappearance in August, prays in Arabic and English while blindfolded in the presence of gunmen. The Associated Press could not independently confirm the origin or the content of the clip, but the Tice family released a statement to several media outlets confirming it was their son in the video. (AP Photo)

Video shows U.S. journalist held in Syria

Associated Press

In this image made from video and accessed Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, a Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon at a Syrian Army position through a hole in an empty and destroyed home during fighting in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo via AP video)

U.N. envoy to Assad: Change is urgently needed

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

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

**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

** FILE ** In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office and taken on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, leads prayer, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)

U.N. says Iran arms to Syria violate sanctions

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

**FILE** Former Algerian foreign affairs minister Lakhdar Brahimi attends the Ambrosetti economic forum in Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy, on Sept. 4, 2009. (Associated Press)

Syria welcomes Algerian Brahimi as Annan successor

By Bassem Mroue - 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

**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