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**FILE** Syrian soldiers stand June 14, 2012, at the site where a car bomb exploded near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

Report: 85 Syrian soldiers defect to Turkey

Associated Press

Attendees at an Arab League conference on Syria on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Cairo include (from left) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu; Khalid Al Attiya, Qatar minister of state for international cooperation; Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari; Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby; Sheik Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti foreign minister; Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr; and Palestinian envoy Nasser Al Qudwa. (AP Photo)

Syrian opposition makes new push to unite

By Aya Batrawy and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the joint special envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks during a news conference following the Action Group on Syria meeting on Saturday, June 30, 2012, in Geneva. (AP Photo/Martial Trezzini, Keystone)

Syrian opposition rejects new international plan

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

About 800 die in week, says Syrian opposition

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Syrians peer at cars damaged by an explosion Thursday afternoon in Damascus near the capital's famous Hamidiyeh Market and the Palace of Justice. State TV reported at least three people were wounded and about 20 cars damaged. (Associated Press)

Turkey fortifies its border with Syria

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Syrians inspect burned cars June 28, 2012, at the site of a blast in the Syrian capital of Damascus. A strong explosion rocked the city near a busy market and the Palace of Justice, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. (Associated Press)

Turkey fortifies Syrian border; bomb hits Damascus

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed on Sunday, June 24, 2012, purports to show Syrian military tanks in Hama, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video)

Activists: Syrian rebels clash with elite troops

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners raising their hands and chanting slogans, as they carry the coffins of Syrian citizens who were killed by the Syrian forces shelling, in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday June 26, 2012. Syria's elite Republican Guard forces clashed with rebels just outside Damascus Tuesday in some of the most intense fighting involving the special forces guarding the capital since an uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began last year, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)

Assad declares ‘state of war’ as regime’s grip on Syria loosens

By Bradley Secker and Ruby Russell - Special to The Washington Times

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Justice and Development Party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. "Any Syrian military element that approaches Turkish border will be regarded as threat " Erdogan said four days after a Turkish warplane was shot down by Syria. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey warns Syria away from its border

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

The flags of NATO member countries fly outside the alliance's headquarters in Brussels in June 2007. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Turkey jet crisis unlikely to pull NATO into Syria

By Slobodan Lekic and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Other side of the Cyprus conflict

The Washington Times

A Turkish coast guard ship searches the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Sunday, June 24, 2012, for the Turkish warplane that was downed by Syria on Friday. (AP Photo)

Syrian soldiers defect to Turkey as tensions soar

By Bassem Mroue and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Turkish Foreign Ministry)

NATO to meet over downing of Turkish plane by Syria

By Selcan Hacaoglu - Associated Press

Briefly: NATO to discuss downing of Turkish plane by Syria

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** In this April 29, 2010, file photo, a Turkish pilot salutes before take-off at an air base in Konya, Turkey. Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Saturday, June 23, 2012, his country would take "necessary" action against Syria for the downing of a Turkish military jet, but suggested that the aircraft may have unintentionally violated the Syrian airspace. The plane went down in the Mediterranean Sea about 8 miles (13 kilometers) away from the Syrian town of Latakia, Turkey, said. (AP Photo/File)

Syria: Downing of Turkish plane not a hostile act

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time to stand up for Cyprus

The Washington Times

Turks hold national flags as they march in Ankara on Wednesday. They were protesting the deaths of soldiers a day earlier, when Kurdish rebels attacked Turkish military units with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in the Daglica area of Hakkari province, which borders northern Iraq Kurdish areas in southeastern Turkey. Reportedly, at least eight soldiers and 26 rebels died. (Associated Press)

Turkey hits Kurd rebels over border in Iraqi territory

By Selcan Hacaoglu - Associated Press

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AP Photo)

13 inmates killed in Turkish prison fire

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration in Idlib province in northern Syria in this image taken by a citizen journalist on Friday, June 15, 2012, and provided by Edlib News Network. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network)

Syrian activists warn of dire conditions in Homs

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Illustration Cyprus under Turkey by John Camejo for The Washington Times

ROS-LEHTINEN: Time for Turkey to leave Cyprus in peace

By By Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen