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Dangerous Syrian chemicals in inaccessible area

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2014 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, hold up his portraits as they march during a demonstration is solidarity with government forces, in the al-Inshaat neighborhood of Homs, Syria. A Syrian lawmaker on Wednesday registered his candidacy for the June 3 presidential election, becoming the first contender in the June 3 vote that will held in the midst of the country’s civil war and has already been dismissed by the West as a farce. President Bashar Assad has suggested he would seek another term in office but has not yet announced his candidacy. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Activists say Syrian airstrikes in north kill 30

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, posted on April 18, 2014, an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, two women and a young girl are treated by a medic in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus. Syrian opposition activists and other witnesses tell The Associated Press that Syrian government forces have attacked rebel-held areas with poisonous chlorine gas in recent months. They say the attacks left scores of men, women and children coughing, choking and gasping for breath. The reports have been denied by the Syrian government and have yet to be confirmed by any foreign country or international organization. But if true, they highlight the limitations of the global effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)

Syrian activists accuse Assad of new gas attacks

By ZEINA KARAM and DIAA HADID - Associated Press

Syrian government forces ride a motorcycle around the main square after being deployed in Yabroud town, Syria, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters seized a key rebel supply town on the Lebanese border on Sunday, driving them from the area and scoring a major blow against them in the three-year-old-conflict. The fall of Yabroud immediately emboldened government forces to attack nearby rebel-held towns, pressing forward in what has been nearly a yearlong advance against rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. The Syrian revolutionary flag is seen painted at right. (AP Photo)

Syrian army ousts rebels from border stronghold

By DIAA HADID and BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, Syria's Foreign Minister and head of the Syrian government delegation Walid al-Moallem gestures during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Lebanese security officials said Friday, March 14, that Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has been rushed to a Beirut hospital and is undergoing treatment there. The officials didn’t say when al-Moallem was brought to the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Syrian foreign minister’s heart surgery a success

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade adjust their weapons during training near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Hezbollah says Israel carried out an airstrike targeting its positions in Lebanon near the border with Syria earlier this week, claiming it caused damage but no casualties. The Wednesday statement was the group's first acknowledgement of the reported Monday night airstrikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel takes risk with airstrike on Hezbollah

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, a citizen journalism image provided by the United Media Office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the United Nations investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be a chemical rocket, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)

U.N. tells Syria to hurry on chemical weapons disposal

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Syrian airstrikes kill at least 18 in Aleppo

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian residents and rescue workers carry a body from a building damaged by the Syrian forces airplanes in the neighborhood of Qadi Askar in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. The Aleppo Media Center said the air raid killed and wounded several people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

US says Syria must comply with chemical arms deal

By RYAN LUCAS - Associated Press

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Prof. Ake Sellstr&#246;m, left, head of the U.N. mission to investigate allegations of the use of chemical weapons in the Syria, listens U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon makes a statement after receiving a report from the mission on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

U.N. inspectors confirm Syria chemical attack, lack evidence to assign blame

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This Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows two Free Syrian Army fighters helping a wounded comrade during clashes in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syrian army captures suburb south of Damascus

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) gives an interview to Chinese state television channel CCTV in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Mr. Assad said his government will allow international experts access to its chemical weapons sites, but he cautioned that rebels might block them from reaching some of the locations. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria’s Bashar Assad warns that weapons inspectors might face rebel attack

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with U.N. Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, center, next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, during a press conference after their meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

John Kerry: Syria peace prospects ride on weapons talks

By John Heilprin and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

**FILE** Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian entrepreneurs while visiting a SIBUR Holding petrochemical plant in Voronezh, 534 km (334 miles) south of Moscow, on May 23, 2013. (Associated Press/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin to Obama: Don’t hand ‘trump card’ to Syrian rebels before U.N. evidence presented

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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, file citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a member of a U.N. investigation team takes samples of sands near a part of a missile is likely to be one of the chemical rockets, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. (AP Photo/United Media Office of Arbeen, File)

Consensus grows to arm Syrian rebels, but only the right ones; Obama still weighing options

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama speaks during a ceremony to award U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ty M. Carter the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Aug. 26, 2013, at the White House. (Associated Press)

Obama: I haven’t made a decision about Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Black columns of smoke rise from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood, east of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Syria reached an agreement with the United Nations on Sunday to allow a U.N. team of experts to visit the site of alleged chemical weapons attacks last week outside Damascus, state media said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

U.N.’s Syria team says vehicle shot at by snipers near Damascus

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this image made from video, U.N. vehicles leave the entry area of a hotel after U.N. weapon inspectors get off their vehicles upon their arrival in Damascus, Syria, on Aug. 18, 2013. A team of U.N. weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus on Sunday for a long-delayed mission to investigate the alleged use of chemical arms in Syria's civil war. (Associated Press)

U.N. inspectors arrive in Damascus on chemical probe

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

**FILE** In this July 3, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, buildings damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling are seen in the Jouret al-Chiyah neighborhood of Homs, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syrian army launches heavy barrage on city of Homs

By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam - Associated Press