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Syrians hold anti-government protest in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, July 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Alberto Prieto)

Syrian forces move to retake Aleppo

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed on Sunday, July 15, 2012, purports to show Free Syrian Army soldiers during clashes with Syrian government forces in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syria uses helicopters to battle rebels in capital

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video from Hama Revolution 2011 and accessed by AP video, Friday, July 13, 2012, purports to show families gathered around bodies of victims killed by violence that, according to anti-regime activists, was carried out by government forces in Tremseh, Syria, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the central city of Hama. (AP Photo/ Hama Revolution 2011 via AP video)

U.N. team investigates reported Syria massacre

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, black smoke rises from buildings near a mosque from purported forces shelling in Homs, Syria. The Associated Press is unable to independently verify the authenticity, content, location or date of this citizen journalist image. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)

U.N. blames regime forces for Syria massacre

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Annan: Assad discusses possible Syrian transition

By Edith M. Lederer and John Heilprin - Associated Press

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PIPES: Stay out of the Syrian morass

By Daniel Pipes

**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

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

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

U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria (JSE) Kofi Annan speaks during a press conference after his arrival in Damascus, Syria, Monday, May 28, 2012. Annan, arrived in Damascus on Monday for talks with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Russia condemns ally Syria over massacre of 108

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Lynn Berry - Associated Press

** FILE ** Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes his British counterpart William Hague during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 28, 2012, expected to focus on the Syria crisis. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

Russian FM: Both sides in Syria to blame

By Lynn Berry - Associated Press

Anti-Syrian regime mourners chant slogans as they carry the body of soldier Khaled Shurbajy, who was shot by Syrian security forces in Dir el Zour last week after disobeying orders to fire on anti-Assad protesters, during his funeral procession, in the Kfar Suseh area of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday , May 26, 2012. (AP Photo)

Dozens of children killed in new Syria attack

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

** FILE ** This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Friday, May 25, 2012 purports to show shelling in Jobar, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Activists: Toll from Syrian attack more than 90

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

A U.N. observer and a Syrian army officer (left) listen to citizens during a visit to pro-Syrian-regime neighborhoods in Homs province of central Syria on Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian rebels target security officials in Damascus

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Syrian security forces raid a neighborhood in Daraa, Syria, in this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and accessed on Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)

Activists: Dozens killed in Hama after U.N. visit

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

U.N. observers, led by Moroccan Col. Ahmed Himmiche (left), leave the Sheraton Hotel in Damascus, Syria, on April 16, 2012. (Associated Press)

U.N.’s Ban: Syria must allow observers full access

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

"We will start our mission as soon as possible and we hope it will be a success," says Col. Ahmed Himmiche (foreground) of Morocco before he and other U.N. observers leave a hotel in Damascus, Syria, on Monday. (Associated Press)

Syria must allow observers full access, U.N. chief declares

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks via telephone to with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan from his hotel room in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, April 12, 2012, the deadline for the cease-fire in Syria. (AP Photo/The United Nations, Evan Schneider)

U.N. approves first observers for Syria

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This satellite image from Saturday, April 7, 2012, shows the presence of a military convoy in Zirdana, Syria, on April 5, right, next to imagery of the same area on April 4, showing no military convoy, according to information shown on the U.S. Embassy Damascus Facebook page. (AP Photo/U.S. Embassy Damascus via Facebook)

U.S. warns Syria it can’t deceive world over pullout

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Syrian activists prepare signs for upcoming protests at a house in Damascus, Syria, on April 3, 2012. Syrian activists say there have been explosions and clashes in several parts of the country even as the government claims it has started to withdraw troops from some cities in compliance with an international cease-fire plan. (Associated Press)

Clashes erupt after Syria claims troop pullout

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press