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** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, meeting for several hours on Monday, May 27, 2013, with rebel leaders in Syria, was asked for U.S. help to establish a no-fly zone, obtain anti-aircraft weapons and launch airstrikes on targets associated with the regime of President Bashar Assad. (Syrian Emergency Task Force)

In secret trip to Syria, Sen. John McCain hears rebels’ pleas for help

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 photo, a Syrian rebel recites verses of the Quran after clashes with troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, Syria. As fears grow in the West that Assad will unleash chemical weapons as an act of desperation, NATO moved forward Thursday with its plan to place Patriot missiles and troops along Syria's border with Turkey to protect against potential attacks. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Syrian rebels create new unified military command

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

Syrian women and children wait Aug. 28, 2012, outside a bakery shop to buy bread in Azaz, Syria. (Associated Press)

Rebel-held Syrian town seeks normalcy, weapons

By Michael Gunn and Peter Carvill - Special to The Washington Times

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Aug. 7, 2012, purports to show defected Prime Minister Riad Hijab (center) before leaving Syria en route to Jordan in Daraa, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Defecting Syrian PM arrives in Jordan after hiding

By Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian security force inspects the scene after a bomb ripped through the third floor of the state TV building in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. The bomb shattered several offices and wounded several employees, Syrian TV said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Aide: Syrian PM’s break months in planning

By Brian Murphy and Jamal Halaby - Associated Press

In this citizen journalist image, smoke billows over Damascus, Syria, on July 18, 2012, after a bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting. Three top regime officials, including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law, were killed in the blast. (Associated Press)

Blast kills high-ranking Syrian officials

By Andrew Bossone and Jacob Resneck - Special to The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Kofi Annan, the U.N. envoy for the Syrian crisis, conferred in Moscow on Tuesday on efforts to end the fighting in Syria. (Associated Press)

Terrified Syrians pack up to flee capital

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

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

Clashes between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's security forces damaged this apartment building in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian forces take eastern city from rebels

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian rescue workers remove wreckage from the Syrian military intelligence building at a security compound which was attacked by an explosion, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on Friday Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian army general assassinated in Damascus

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

**FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) prays next to Syrian Grand Mufti Ahmad Hassoun (second from left) at the Al-Rawda Mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, during a ceremony marking the birth of Islam's Prophet Mohammad. (AP Photo/SANA)

Chief army defector promises fight to free Syria

By Bassem Mroue and Lee Keath - Associated Press

Riad al-Asaad heads a group of Syrian army defectors responsible for attacks against the regime. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) holds no territory, appears largely disorganized and is up against a fiercely loyal and cohesive military that will stop at nothing to protect the regime. (Associated Press)

Syrian army defectors raise stakes in uprising

By Zeina Karam and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

"This is not strange [for] Syria. They will send [observer] missions to [only select places] to stop from showing what is actually happening on the ground," said Walid Saffour, president of the Syrian Human Rights Council in the United Kingdom. (Associated Press)

Rebels step up attacks against isolated Assad

By Louise Osborne - Special to The Washington Times

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday Nov. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Grenade blasts bring violence to Syrian capital

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Russia says Syria’s crisis looks like ‘civil war’

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Syrian troops pursue defectors in north; 7 killed

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press