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Syrians on motorcycles look Aug. 8, 2012, at the damage of a destroyed house after it was hit by an airstrike that killed six Syrians in the town of Tal Rifat, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syrian refugee camps swell as frustrations rise

By Bassem Mroue and Dale Gavlak - Associated Press

A Syrian boy relaxes in the town of Kafr Hamra on Tuesday at the school where he lives with his family after they fled their home.

Hundreds of Syrian refugees cross Turkish border

By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (right) and former Syrian Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass pause for the media before a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at Mr. Davutoglu’s residence in Ankara on July 26. The general, after defecting from Syria, made his surprise visit to Turkey soon afterward. Gen. Tlas says he defected when he realized that longtime friend President Bashar Assad could not be deterred from crushing opposition to his regime. But some Syrians suspect his motives may be political. (Associated Press)

Syria rebels suspicious over defector’s motives

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

A Free Syria Army fighter waves Aug. 6, 2012, from the top of a destroyed army tank in the town of Anadan on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria’s Assad returns to public eye with ally Iran

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

In Turkey, more than 100 Kurdish rebels die in fighting

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

The Washington Times

EIBNER: Islamic extremists threaten Syria’s Christians

By John Eibner

Free Syrian Army soldiers sit on a sidewalk at the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. (AP Photo)

Rebels use captured tank against Syrian forces

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Syrian rebels rest in a pickup truck Saturday in Aleppo. “Life in Aleppo has become unbearable. ... There’s shelling night and day, every day,” said a Syrian writer who spoke via telephone on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Iran is Syria’s only remaining ally in the Middle East after 17 months of fighting. (Associated Press)

Alawites spurned by rebels in Syria

By Michael Gunn - Special to The Washington Times

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed July 29, 2012, shows a Syrian military tank in Daraa, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian envoy to London defects amid Aleppo fight

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

**FILE** A giant Turkish flag is illuminated July 18, 2012, on the Pentadaktilos mountain in the Turkish-occupied area in Nicosia, Cyprus, as cars pass on the road. (Associated Press)

In Cyprus, a new generation inherits a conflict

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

Syrian rebels rest in a pickup truck Saturday in Aleppo. “Life in Aleppo has become unbearable. ... There’s shelling night and day, every day,” said a Syrian writer who spoke via telephone on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Iran is Syria’s only remaining ally in the Middle East after 17 months of fighting. (Associated Press)

Rebels pounded, but hold ground in Aleppo

By combined dispatches

Syrian rebels sit July 28, 2012 in a pickup truck in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria’s rebels hold Aleppo neighborhoods

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Free Syrian Army soldiers are seen July 24, 2012, at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria. Turkey sealed its border with Syria to trucks on July 25, 2012, cutting off a vital supply line to the embattled nation as fighting stretched into its fifth day in the commercial capital of Aleppo. (Associated Press)

Syrian rushes troops to Aleppo to fight rebels

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

A Free Syrian Army soldier points his weapon and stands on a likeness of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles north of Aleppo, Syria. Turkey on Wednesday sealed its border with Syria. (Associated Press)

Turkey closes blitzed border with Syrian ‘no man’s land’

By Bradley Secker and Louise Osborne - Special to The Washington Times

Briefly: President picks U.S.-educated prime minister

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This citizen journalist image shot through a broken car window shows smoke billowing from a building after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. (AP Photo)

Syrian rebels say fight for Aleppo has begun

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Bodies of Turkish pilots recovered from seabed

By SELCAN HACAOGLU - Associated Press

** FILE ** In a March 30, 2011, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, addresses the Parliament, in Damascus, Syria. A Turkish newspaper says Assad, speaking in an exclusive interview, has expressed regret over the shooting down of a Turkish jet by his forces. (AP Photo/SANA, file)

Report: Assad regrets shooting down Turkish jet

By Selcan Hacaoglu and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

“There is an opportunity before the conference of Syrian opposition today that must be seized, and I say and repeat that this opportunity must not be wasted under any circumstance.”
— Nabil Elaraby,
Arab League chief

General, 84 troops among nearly 300 fleeing to Turkey

The Washington Times