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In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 photo, Syrian rebel fighters keep an eye through a hole in the wall that overlooks a position held by troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad during skirmishes in Aleppo, the Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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An elderly Syrian man walks next to the remains of a house was destroyed by an airstrike last Tuesday killing several Syrians, in the Maret El-Nasaneh village on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 photo, a Syrian resident gets emergency medical attention as he arrives to a hospital after he was injured by a mortar attack in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 photo, a Syrian man is carried in the arms of his relatives at a hospital after he was injured by a mortar shell explosion in the Bab Al-Nayrab neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 photo, a Syrian rebel fighter aims at Syrian government forces during skirmishes in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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Rebels clean their weapons and check ammunition at their base on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, photo, smoke rises after a Syrian mortar shell landed in a neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

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**FILE** United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) speaks Jan. 31, 2012, to Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, at United Nations headquarters as British Foreign Secretary William Hague listens to Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari address to a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria. (Associated Press)

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A street of destroyed buildings is reflected Nov. 13, 2012, in a mirror used by rebel fighters to keep an eye on a Syrian army position in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

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This image taken from video obtained from Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and an Associated Press journalist who saw a plane bomb an area around the Syrian-Turkish border town of Ras al-Ayn, shows Syrians inspecting the damage and looking for victims moments after an airstrike by Syrian warplanes in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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This image taken from video obtained from Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and an Associated Press journalist who saw a plane bomb an area around the Syrian-Turkish border town of Ras al-Ayn, shows a wounded Syrian youth being placed in a car moments after an airstrike by Syrian warplanes in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, on Nov. 12, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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This image taken from video obtained from Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and an Associated Press journalist who saw a plane bomb an area around the Syrian-Turkish border town of Ras al-Ayn, shows Syrians inspecting the damage and looking for victims moments after an airstrike by Syrian warplanes in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, on Nov. 12, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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A women passes accumulated garbage in the Al-Bohout area of Aleppo, Syria, on Nov. 10, 2012. Due to heavy fighting and shelling, the garbage collection system collapsed weeks before. (Associated Press)