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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forged a means of cohabitation with the military, which once sparred openly with the government over the direction of the country. (Associated Press)

Military key to Syria planning

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

Syrian planes bomb town, kill 19

By combined dispatches

** FILE ** U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Lakhdar Brahimi, the newly appointed joint special representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, at United Nations headquarters on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp)

Airstrikes in Syria kill at least 18 people

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this image made from video and accessed on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, Free Syrian Army fighters engage with government troops in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo via AP Video)

UNICEF says 1,600 killed in Syria last week

By Bassem Mroue and Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 photo, an Israeli woman talks on the phone after collecting gas masks for her family in a shopping mall in Jerusalem. A new U.N. report adds credibility to Israel's warnings about Tehran's nuclear ambitions, Israeli officials said Friday, commenting on findings that could provide ammunition to Israeli calls for military action against Iran's suspect nuclear program at a time when the U.S. and other allies are pressing the Jewish state to hold its fire. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Israelis say UN report strengthens Iran warnings

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Buildings at Iran's Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran are shrouded with pink tarps in an effort, the Institute for Science and International Security says, to hide efforts to sanitize the site of suspected work on explosive charges used to detonate a warhead, in this photo dated Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/ISIS)

U.N. nuclear agency establishes Iran Task Force

By George Jahn - Associated Press

Task force will focus on Iran’s nuke work

By George Jahn - Associated Press

Alaeddin Boroujerdi (left), head of Iran's powerful parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, meets with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012.
Mr. al-Sharaa's appearance at the meeting ended rumors that he had defected to Jordan. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Mass burials in Damascus suburb amid massacre report

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

Three cars that were hit by bombs as they carried Iranian scientists are displayed outside a conference hall hosting the meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran opens nonaligned summit with nuclear appeals

Associated Press

**FILE** Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), waves May 14, 2012, as he arrives for talks with the IAEA at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna. (Associated Press)

U.N. nuke agency forms special Iran team

By George Jahn - Associated Press

**FILE** The United Nations headquarters in New York

GOP platform opposes U.N. global tax plans

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

In this photograph made on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, rows of housing containers formerly occupied by the US military are seen at Baghdad, airport. Iraqi government plans to move here some 3,300 members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, who spent past three decades at Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Top U.N. official in Iraq ‘misled’ world on camp for Iranians

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign affairs minister who was named Friday as the new U.N. envoy for Syria, gives an interview to the Associated Press in Paris on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

U.N. special envoy seeks unified voice on Syria

By Greg Keller - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (Associated Press)

Latest U.N. envoy for Syria not optimistic

By Greg Keller - Associated Press

**FILE** Former Algerian foreign affairs minister Lakhdar Brahimi attends the Ambrosetti economic forum in Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy, on Sept. 4, 2009. (Associated Press)

Syria welcomes Algerian Brahimi as Annan successor

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network purports to show Syrian Pilot Col. Rafik Mohammed Suleiman being interrogated by a rebel officer Aug. 13, 2012, after his Soviet-made MiG warplane was apparently hit by ground fire over Deir el-Zour province, an area near the Iraqi border. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network)

Syrian foreign minister: Rebels no match for military

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

**FILE** U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks Aug. 13, 2012, during a ceremony to launch the Development Alliance Korea, a coalition of local civic groups to promote overseas development aid, at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul. (Associated Press)

U.S. urges U.N. chief not to attend summit in Iran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ibrahim Nsanzimana is led out of his overcrowded jail at the Congolese military intelligence offices in Goma, eastern Congo, on Friday. (Associated Press)

Rwandans say army secretly aids Congo rebels

By Michelle Faul - Associated Press

Syrian troops cited in war crimes

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

A Syrian boy arrives at a field hospital after an airstrike hit homes on the outskirts of Aleppo on Wednesday. As bloodshed increases in Syria, critics say President Obama has relied too heavily on the United Nations. (Associated Press)

Obama vs. Romney on Syria policy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times