Syria

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** FILE ** In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian soldiers stand at the explosion site where a car bomb exploded near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, seen in the background, suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, June 14, 2012. A car bomb exploded Thursday in a Damascus suburb that is home to a popular Shiite Muslim shrine, wounding at least two people, Syria's state-run news agency SANA reported, while activists said regime troops continued shelling rebellious areas in central Homs province. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the joint U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, briefs the press at the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

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In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, smoke rises from buildings following purported shelling in Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Kofi Annan (right), Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, and Major-General Robert Mood, head of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria and Chief Military Observer, look on during a news briefing June 22, 2012, at the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press)

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This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN and taken on Thursday, June 21, 2012, purports to show smoke from shelling rising up from buildings in the Khaldiyeh neighborhood of Homs province, central Syria. The Associated Press is unable to independently verify the authenticity, content, location or date of this handout photo. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)

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This image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News and accessed Wednesday, June 20, 2012, purports to Syrians riding motor bikes during a demonstration in Hama, Syria. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)