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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2014 file photo, U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi listens during a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Brahimi will resign as the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy on Syria after a nearly two-year effort that failed to bring peace to the war-ravaged country, the U.N. chief announced Tuesday, May 13, 2014. He will step down May 31. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Syrian official welcomes UN mediator’s resignation

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

**FILE** In this July 3, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, buildings damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling are seen in the Jouret al-Chiyah neighborhood of Homs, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria to allow women, children out of besieged city of Homs

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with U.N. Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, center, next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, during a press conference after their meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

John Kerry: Syria peace prospects ride on weapons talks

By John Heilprin and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

This combination of two citizen journalist images shows at left: the damaged 12th century Umayyad mosque without the minaret, which was destroyed by shelling in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday April 24, 2013; and at right, an undated view of the mosque with is minaret still intact. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC, FILE)

Syria’s ancient cultural heritage a casualty of civil war

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

United States Deputy Secretary of State William Burns (left) arrives Jan. 11, 2013, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva for a meeting with U.N. Joint Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov (both unseen) to find a politic solution for the crisis in Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria talks end in Geneva without solution

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (left), the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, shakes hands with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby following a joint press conference at the league's headquarters in Cairo on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Brahimi warns of surge in deaths in Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Free Syrian Army fighters fire at enemy positions during clashes with government forces in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo on Saturday. A U.N. envoy warns 100,000 Syrians could be killed next year if fighting continues. (Associated Press)

Envoy warns of chaos in Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and U.N. envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian foreign minister says Assad won’t go

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

This Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, image taken from video that has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting shows a Syrian man carrying an elderly woman after a government airstrike hit the Hama suburb of Halfaya, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

U.N. envoy worried after talks with Syria’s Assad

Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (left), an envoy of the United Nations and Arab League, visits Monday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus in an effort to find a way out of the civil war that activists say has killed more than 40,000 people. (Associated Press)

U.N. envoy worried after talks with Syria’s Assad

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi, joint special representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, answers media questions after consultations at U.N. headquarters on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.N. envoy in Damascus to push Syria peace plan

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle in Belfast on Dec. 7, 2012. Clinton traveled to Northern Ireland to lend her support to the British province's fragile peace, the frailty of which was underlined by overnight rioting on the eve of her visit and the seizure of a bomb. (Associated Press)

U.S. works with Russia on Syria, but wants Assad out

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

With war shifting, U.S. and Russia discuss Syria’s future

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a Syrian man helping an injured man at the scene after a blast occurred according to footage and reports shown on State-run Al-Ikhbariya television in the Mazzeh al-Jabal district of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. Several people were killed and injured, among them children, Al-Ikhbaria said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Brother of Syrian parliament speaker assassinated

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at Zagreb international airport, Croatia, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Clinton is currently touring northern Africa and southeast Europe. (AP Photo/Damir Sencar, Pool)

Clinton ‘not surprised’ by Syrian cease-fire failure

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syrians cross a street as a pile of rubbish burns along the roadside in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

New fighting in Syria despite U.N.-backed truce

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

In this Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, photo, a Syrian rebel fighter takes cover as he watches over the enemy position as mortar explosions and gunfire in Aleppo, Syria, on the first day of Eid Al-Adha. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Bombings, clashes leave Syria truce in tatters

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, shakes hands with worshippers at a mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Fighting raged near a military base in Syria's north as a cease-fire in the bloody civil war was supposed to go into effect Friday at dawn, activists said, illustrating the difficulty of enforcing even a limited truce coinciding with a Muslim holiday. (AP Photo/SANA)

Fighting mars Syria holiday truce; protests resume

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) greets U.N. and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi before their closed-door meeting in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

Islamic militant group in Syria rejects truce

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

**FILE** A Free Syrian Army fighter walks Sept. 10, 2012, through a street in Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syrian warplanes strike rebel-held town in north

By Karin Laub - Associated Press