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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) walks with Peruvian Defense Minister Pedro Cateriano (left) past an honor guard during a ceremony at army headquarters in Lima, Peru, on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Panetta: Syrian clash with Turkey may escalate

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from houses due to government shelling in Homs, Syria, on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Activists: Syrian warplanes pound Homs

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, photo, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, and his deputies Bulent Arinc, right, and Besir Atalay seen at Turkey's parliament in Ankara, Turkey. (AP Photo)

Turkish PM doesn’t want war with Syria

By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Frazer - Associated Press

“We want peace,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says after a Syrian mortar attack kills five. (Associated Press)

Turkey vows to protect its people after Syrian shelling

By Louise Osborne and Jacob Resneck - Special to The Washington Times

Protesters hold banners that read "No to War" during a debate at Turkey's parliament in Ankara, Turkey, on Oct. 4, 2012, after Turkey fired on Syrian targets for a second straight day. Turkey said it has no intention of declaring war, despite rising tensions after deadly shelling from Syria killed five civilians in a Turkish border town. (Associated Press)

Head of U.N. alarmed by Turkey-Syria tensions

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pentagon press secretary George Little (center) takes part in an audio news conference with Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Clark of the Air Force Special Operations Command (pictured on a television top right) at the Pentagon on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Pentagon voices support for Turkey in skirmish with Syria

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Smoke rises over the Saif Al Dawla district in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Turkey fires at Syria after deadly shelling

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

Turkey to block access to anti-Islam film

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

A Syrian family walks down a street that was destroyed in an Assad-regime airstrike earlier in the day in the al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel: Syrian mortars accidentally land in Golan

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian woman holds a bouquet of flowers and rebel flag during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday that nearly 30,000 Syrians have been killed during the 18-month uprising against the Assad regime. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

Syrian rebels move command from Turkey to Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

**FILE** The portraits of people who were executed, died or disappeared in jails during military rule after Turkey's 1980 coup, according to protesters and family members, are displayed outside a courthouse in Ankara, Turkey, on Sept. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

Report: 330 convicted in Turkey military coup plot

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

The sauce for a turkey cutlet burger is of curry paste and peanut butter. (Associated Press)

Improvised sauce adds Thai zest to cutlets

By J.M. Hirsch - Associated Press

A Free Syrian Army fighter stands at the front line in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Syrian activists: Airstrikes kill at least 30

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Syrian refugees chant slogans to protest against the visit of Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, not pictured, to the Zaatari Refugees Camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian rebels seize control of a border crossing

By Nebi Qena - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (left), the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, speaks in Mafraq, Jordan, on Tuesday as Andrew Harper, the UNHCR representative to Jordan, listens during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp for Syrians who fled the civil war. (Associated Press)

Syrian refugees protest U.N. envoy

By Dale Gavlak - Associated Press

Briefly: Iran deploys sub in Persian Gulf

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Syrians who fled their homes because of fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces, take refuge at the Samiya al-Makhzumi School in the Mezzeh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Syria accuses Turkey of allowing al Qaeda transit

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

**FILE** Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi (left) talks Aug. 31, 2012, with Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, under a portrait of Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during their meeting in Tehran. (Associated Press/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

State Dept. disses Iran in group on Syrian peace

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi ( left) meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo on Monday. Mr. Brahimi, who is tasked with brokering a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict, replaced Kofi Annan, who stepped down in August in frustration after his six-point peace plan collapsed. Mr. Morsi also is seeking to end the bloodshed in Syria. (Associated Press)

New Egypt leader has big plans for revival

By Sarah Lynch - Special to The Washington Times

Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks to the media during a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Iraqi vice president claims innocence, says terror trial was a sham

By Lara Jakes and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press