Syria

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This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed on Monday, June 18, 2012, purports to show smoke rising from buildings in Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video)

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A still from an amateur video released by Shaam News Network purports to show black smoke rising from buildings in Homs, Syria, where Syrian forces renewed shelling Monday. (Associated Press)

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This image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News and accessed on Sunday, June 17, 2012, purports to show a Syrian man standing in smoke from rockets that hit a building in Rastan town in Syria's Homs province. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP Video)

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Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration in Idlib province in northern Syria in this image taken by a citizen journalist on Friday, June 15, 2012, and provided by Edlib News Network. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network)

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UN observers welcome their comrades upon their return from al-Haffa, in northern Syria, to Damascus, Syria on Saturday, June 16, 2012. U.N. Observers in Syria suspended their activities and patrols Saturday because of escalating violence in the country, the head of the mission said, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan for Syria is disintegrating. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed June 14, 2012, purports to show shelling in Joret el-Shayah, Homs, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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Syrian soldiers stand at the site of a car bombing near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab (background) in suburban Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

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This citizen journalism image taken on Saturday purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners carrying the coffins of Syrian citizens killed in shelling by Syrian troops in Daraa, Syria. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, civilians were killed in heavy shelling on Saturday in Daraa, where the uprising began in March 2011. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network purports to show a girl holding the Syrian revolutionary flag during a demonstration in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria, on June 8, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network)

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This image made from video released by the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) and accessed on Saturday, June 9, 2012, purports to show a U.N. observer near a destroyed bus after overnight fighting in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/UNSMIS via AP Video)