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Then-Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab (center) speaks under the portrait of the Syrian President Bashar Assad during a meeting in Damascus, Syria, in an undated photo released by the official SANA news agency on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Mr. Hijab has defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman said Monday. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Syrian refugees rest as they cross the border by the Iraqi town of Qaim on Tuesday. In Baghdad, at least 22,300 Iraqis who had fled to Syria several years ago have streamed home in the past three weeks. (Associated Press)
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Angered by the attack Sunday evening that left at least 16 on Egyptian soldiers dead, residents of Rafah protest by burning tires in the road on the outskirts Rafah, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. (AP Photo)
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A Free Syria Army fighter waves Aug. 6, 2012, from the top of a destroyed army tank in the town of Anadan on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)
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This undated photo provided by the FBI on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, shows Wade Michael Page, a suspect in the Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, Sikh temple shootings in Oak Creek, Wis. (AP Photo/FBI)
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**FILE** An Israeli soldier examines the wreckage of an Egyptian military vehicle after militants drove it through a security fence into Israel from Egypt at an Israeli military base on Aug. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak stand next to the wreckage of an Egyptian military vehicle after militants burst it through a security fence into Israel from Egypt, at an Israeli military base along the border with Egypt, southern Israel, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. Officials say Egypt has deployed at least two helicopter gunships to the Sinai Peninsula in the hunt for militants behind the killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint along the border with Israel. Suspected Islamists on Sunday evening attacked the Egyptian checkpoint, killed the troops, then stole two of their vehicles and burst through a security fence into Israel. Israeli aircraft then halted their assault. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Paper lanterns float Aug. 6, 2012, along the Motoyasu River in front of the illuminated Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima marks the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing on Aug 6. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (right), a member of feminist punk band Pussy Riot, is escorted on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, to a police van in Moscow. (Associated Press)
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Migrants are seen on a police bus in central Athens on Aug. 5, 2012. Greek police say officers have begun an operation to arrest and deport illegal migrants from the center of the capital and along the country’s northeastern border. Over 100,000 illegal immigrants cross into Greece annually, most through Turkey. (Associated Press)