Syria

APTOPIX Mideast Iraq _Live.jpg

Armed Syrian rebels stand guard July 25, 2012, as refugees flee Syria at the border crossing by the Iraqi town of Qaim, 200 miles (320 kilometers) west of Baghdad. (Associated Press)

20120725-203152-pic-670399660.jpg

A Free Syrian Army soldier points his weapon and stands on a likeness of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles north of Aleppo, Syria. Turkey on Wednesday sealed its border with Syria. (Associated Press)

Mideast Syria_Live(2).jpg

Free Syrian Army soldiers are seen July 24, 2012, at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria. Turkey sealed its border with Syria to trucks on July 25, 2012, cutting off a vital supply line to the embattled nation as fighting stretched into its fifth day in the commercial capital of Aleppo. (Associated Press)

Mideast Syria_Live.jpg

In this image made from amateur video, a Free Syrian Army solider fires his weapon during clashes with Syrian government troops in Aleppo, Syria. Turkey sealed its border with Syria to trucks on July 25, 2012, cutting off a vital supply line to the embattled nation as fighting stretched into its fifth day. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

20120722-203033-pic-721888265.jpg

This image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News purports to show smoke rising from artillery shelling near a mosque in Talbiseh, in the central province of Homs, Syria. (Ugarit News via Associated Press)

SYRIA22.jpg

This citizen journalist image shot through a broken car window shows smoke billowing from a building after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. (AP Photo)

APTOPIX Mideast Syria_Live.jpg

This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed by the Associated Press on purports to show the spread of fires as a result of the shelling of Homs, Syria, by government forces on July 21, 2012. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

APTOPIX Mideast Syria_Live(1).jpg

**FILE** Smoke rises over the skyline July 19, 2012, in the Qaboun neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, during shelling by Syrian government forces. (Associated Press)

APTOPIX Mideast Syria_Live.jpg

In this photo taken during a government-organized tour, Syrian soldiers stand July 20, 2012, next to burned cars after they regained control of the district of Midan, in the southern part of Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press)

SYR-Secker3_0719175.jpg

Soldiers from the Free Syrian Army prepare to make a video stating publicly that they have formed a battalion after defecting from the Assad regime’s military. Control over Syria’s rural Idlib province is patchy and continues to shift. (Bradley Secker/special to The Washington Times)

UN Syria_Live.jpg

Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari (far left) and Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin (far right) listen to speakers July 19, 2012, during a Security Council vote at the United Nations. Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution to impose non-military sanctions on Syria. (Associated Press)