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Russian representative Vitaly Churkin delivers remarks Feb. 13, 2012, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters to discuss the human rights situation in Syria. (Associated Press)
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Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby (left) and Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Althani (right), the Qatari prime minister, attend a meeting in Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, at which the organization considered a proposal to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab Muslim nations and the United Nations. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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The Arab League's Syria group meets in Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, as the league considers a proposal to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab Muslim nations and the United Nations, officials from the 22-member group said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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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)
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** FILE ** A Syrian tank is seen in Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo)
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A Syrian rebel peers through a window in Idlib, Syria, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo)
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An injured Syrian rebel fighter is carried into a hospital following an exchange of fire with government troops in Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo)
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A Syrian rebel evacuates an injured fellow rebel during an exchange of fire with army troops in Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday. The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said, as Russia tried to broker talks to end the violence. (Associated Press)
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Syrians gather Feb. 8, 2012, in Doha to protest the use of Russia's veto against the amended resolution on Syria in the U.N. Security Council. (Associated Press)
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Members of the Free Syrian Army train Feb. 7, 2012, outside Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)
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A Syrian rebel stands guard Feb. 8, 2012, at a street in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)
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This image taken from video filmed over the past several days by an independent cameraman and made available Feb. 7, 2012, shows an injured man leaving hospital being helped by friends on the street in the Bab Amr neighborhood of Homs, Syria. (Associated Press/APTN)
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A pro-Syrian regime protester (left), holding a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah with Arabic that reads "Hezbollah", cheers a convoy believed to be transporting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Damascus, Syria, on Feb. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)
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A member of the Free Syrian Army stands guard Monday during a rally of anti-regime demonstrators in Idlib, Syria. The U.S. closed its embassy in Syria, and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in an escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power. (Associated Press)
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Anti-Syrian regime protesters play drums and wave a revolutionary flag Feb. 6, 2012, during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)
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The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, and pulled all American diplomats out of the country on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Sunday in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she says the international community must stop the bloodshed in Syria. (Associated Press)
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**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)
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In this citizen journalism image provide by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released on Wednesday Feb. 2, 2012, a Syrian rebel stands next to a destroyed government forces tank in Homs, central Syria. The Associated Press is unable to independently verify the authenticity, content, location or date of this handout photo. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)
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In this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, an anti-Syrian regime protester, holds a poster with caricature depicting the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 2nd left, pumping up their ally Syrian President Bashar Assad, centre, as she walks during a demonstration in Idlib Province, north Syria. Russia's deputy defense minister says Moscow will not stop arms sales to Syria. Russian state news agencies quoted Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov on Thursday as saying Russia is not violating any international obligations. Arabic on the poster reads, "free people of occupied Kfarnebel." (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)
