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President Barack Obama answers questions at a White House news conference in Washington, April 30, 2013, where he strongly suggested he'd consider military action against Syria if it could be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war.
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Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad enter part of Jobar neighbourhood in Damascus, which had been controlled by fighters of the Free Syrian Army, June 3, 2013.
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Syrian army's soldiers in Qusayr, Syria, on June 5, 2013.
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Syria's President Bashar Assad during an interview with journalists from Argentina in Damascus, on May 18, 2013.
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This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, during an interview broadcast on Syrian state television in Damascus, Syria. Syria's president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaida in his country's civil war, warning it will pay a price "in the heart" of Europe and the United States as the terror network becomes emboldened. Bashar Assad also lashed out at Jordan for allowing "thousands" of fighters to enter Syria through its borders. The rare TV interview comes as the embattled president's military is fighting to reverse rebel advances, with a rocket attack killing at least 12 people in a central village on Wednesday.
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May 22, 2013 - Aleppo, Syria - Syrian rebels walk to reposition near Mena airport. (Credit Image: © Medyan Dairieh/ZUMAPRESS.com)
Trad al-Zouhouri / Shaam News Network / Handout / Reuters
Civilians search for survivors under rubble after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Assad, in Qusayr town near Homs, May 21, 2013.
Malek Alshemali / Reuters
A member of the Free Syrian Army holds a weapon as he takes up position inside a room during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Salaheddine district, April 30, 2013.
Hamid Khatib / REUTERS
A vandalised mosaic picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa province, east Syria, on May 1, 2013.
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This Wednesday, April 24, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows two Syrian Army soldiers aiming their weapons, in Otaybah town, east of Damascus, Syria. After five weeks of battle, Syrian government troops captured a strategic town near Damascus, cutting an arms route for rebels trying to topple President Bashar Assad's regime, state media and activists said Thursday.
Associated Press
This image taken from video obtained from Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an injured Syrian woman rescued by rebels from a firefight in a street in the Jobar neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops battled rebels in the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday and pressed on with a counteroffensive against opposition fighters in the south to prevent their advance on the capital.(AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows smoke rising from burned cars after a huge explosion shook the Sabaa Bahrat Square, one of the capital's biggest roundabouts, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April. 8, 2013. A car bomb rocked a busy residential and commercial district in central Damascus on Monday, killing more than a dozen with many more injured and sending a huge cloud of black smoke billowing over the capital’s skyline, Syrian state-run media said.
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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 file photo, Syrian rebel fighter Tawfiq Hassan, 23, a former butcher, poses for a picture, after returning from fighting against Syrian army forces in Aleppo, at a rebel headquarters in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria. America's Arab allies have dramatically stepped up weapon supplies to Syrian rebels in preparation for a push on the capital Damascus, the main stronghold of President Bashar Assad, officials and Western military experts say, with one official saying airlifts to neighboring Jordan and Turkey have doubled the past month. The U.S. and other Western governments are involved to channel the flow toward more secular fighters, they say. The influx appears to be boosting a rebel drive to seize supply routes from the border with Jordan to Damascus. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)
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The Houla region in Syria's Homs province is shelled, apparently by pro-government forces, last Friday.
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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq said it has merged with Syria's extremist Jabhat al-Nusra, a move that shows the rising confidence of radicals within the Syrian rebel movement and is likely to trigger renewed fears among its international backers. Arabic on the flag, right, reads, "There is no God only God and Mohamad his prophet, Jabhat al-Nusra."
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(From L, front row) France's ambassador to Syria Eric Chevallier, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Syrian National Coalition President Mouaz al-Khatib, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani pose during the family photo of a meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People (FOSP) Ministerial" group on February 28, 2013 in Rome. during a joint press conference at the end of a meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People (FOSP) Ministerial" group on February 28, 2013 in Rome.
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Police secure the area in front of the Iranian Embassy as Syrians living in Egypt protest against the visit of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Cairo February 6, 2013. The protesters say that Ahmadinejad is a supporter of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he disembarks the plane, on his arrival at Ciampino Airport, on February 27, 2013 in Rome where talks on Syria will be held. Rome is the fourth leg of Kerry's first official overseas trip, a hectic nine-day dash through Europe and the Middle East. AFP PHOTO / POOL / JACQUELYN MARTINJACQUELYN MARTIN/AFP/Getty Images
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to Syrian opposition coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib, during an international conference on Syria at Villa Madama, Rome, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
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A Syrian refugee child helps a man to collect wood at a refugee camp on the Syria-Turkey border, on Jan. 9, 2013. The internally displaced Syrians faced further misery due to increasing shortage of supplies as heavy rain was followed by a drop in temperatures.
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Flames and smoke rise from burning cars after two bombs exploded, at the Qazaz neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Thurs., May 10, 2012.
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Palestinian students burn a poster depicting Syrian President Bashar Assad, during a demonstration against his regime at the Unknown Soldier Square in Gaza City on February 21, 2012. Some 500 Palestinians gathered in a Hamas-authorized demonstration in solidarity with Syrian protesters.
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Em Joseph stomps on a poster of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, father of current President Bashar Assad.
4 October 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - As the Syrian regime steps up its military campaing to regain control of the city of Aleppo, the unequpped FSA fighters keep battling Bashar Al Assads military inside buildings and on the streets. Photo Credit: Sebastiano Tomada/Sipa USA
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Em Joseph stomps on a poster of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, father of current President Bashar Assad.
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Protesters march past banners that read "Stop massacres in Syria" in front of the Pantheon in Paris, during a demonstration against violence in Syria, March 15, 2013.
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In this image made from video and accessed Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, a Free Syrian Army fighter calls out to comrades as another fighter fires at Syrian Army positions in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian troops bombarded the northern city of Aleppo Saturday with warplanes and mortar shells as soldiers clashed with rebels in different parts of Syria's largest city, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes were concentrated in several tense neighborhoods where some buildings were damaged and a number of people were wounded. (AP Photo via AP video)
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Free Syrian Army rebels take over the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey, in the restive northwestern Idlib province, July 19, 2012. Rebels seized control of a crossing on the border with neighbouring Turkey as well as all crossings with Iraq.
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Screen grab from video footage from anti-government source claiming to show a Russian-made attack helicopter taking fire in mid-flight from rebel forces on the ground in Syria. Posted on YouTube on Nov. 27, 2012.
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Syrian people watch Syria's President Bashar al-Assad making a public address on the state-run Syrian TV, on January 6, 2013 in Damascus.
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Hassan Saad, 13, who fled Idlib in Syria, flashes a victory sign while walking outside the refugees camp near the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern city of Yayladagi Feb. 16, 2012. Hassan said that his father was killed by the Syrian army five months ago.
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A Free Syrian Army fighter offers evening prayers beside a damaged poster of Syria’s President Bashar Assad during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Dec. 8, 2012.
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Displaced women and children seek shelter from shelling in a basement in Bab Amr, Syria. Feb. 7, 2012.
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Free Syria Army (FSA) fighters battle with regime loyalist soldiers, using heavy machine gun, to dislodge a sniper from its position overlooking the two main roads in the neighbourhood of Askar, in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Oct. 24, 2012
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad meets soldiers during a tour in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA on March 27, 2012.
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Protesters march through the streets in Homs, Syria May 6, 2011 in a still image taken from video. The banner reads, "We are not seeking destruction and division, we are seeking freedom and peace."
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks at Damascus university January 10, 2012, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA.
Michel Euler / AP
Rifaat Assad, an exiled uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Paris on Nov. 15, 2011
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An Assad carpet for sale in Harbiyya, on Sept. 6, 2012.
Fernando Liano / AP
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, listens to his national anthem during a welcoming ceremony at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Saturday, June 26, 2010.
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A soldier stands guard in the disputed village of Ghajar, on the northern border of Israel with Lebanon and Syria's Golan Heights, on Nov. 17, 2010. Israel's security cabinet backed plans to withdraw troops from the northern part of Ghajar and hand over control to a U.N. peacekeeping force
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Syrian Kurds rally against Syria's President Bashar Assad in the Syrian town of Qamishli on March 30, 2012
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A TV grab taken from Al Arabiya channel on May 1, 2011, shows an undated video of people laying on the ground in the city of Daraa, Syria. According to local sources, Around 500 people were arrested on May 1, in and around the Syrian city of Daraa as anti-government protesters planned a new round of demonstrations throughout the week.
Syrian TV via Reuters TV / Reuters
Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, speaks in Damascus in this still image taken from video on June 20, 2011
Benoit Tessier / Reuters
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad
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Confident the surge would pacify Baghdad, bus driver Andalus Hammadi and his family returned from Syria last summer. Now facing new threats from death squads, they're thinking of fleeing again.
Khaled al-Harin / Reuters
A supporter of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad holds aloft a photograph of the president at Hamidiya market in Damascus April 30, 2011.
Muzaffar Salman / AP
A pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protester, hold Assad's portrait and wave their country flag as they protest against the visit of the US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford to the Syrian city of Hama, in front the US embassy in Damascus, Syria, on Friday July 8, 2011.
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Syria's President Bashar Assad
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Syria's President Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul stand together
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An image grab from footage aired on Syria's state television on June 7, 2011 shows what the TV said were policemen shot dead by "terrorist gangs" during a massacre in the town of Jisr al-Shurghur in northwest Syria on June 6.
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A grab from a video shows Syrian anti-government protesters tearing down portraits of late President Hafez al-Assad (R) and his son, President Bashar al-Assad, in Hama on April 29, 2010.
AP
This June 18, 2013 photo released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) shows special envoy Angelina Jolie taking notes as she speaks with Syrian refugees in a Jordanian military camp based near the Syria-Jordan border.
Abdalghne Karoof / Reuters
A Free Syrian Army fighter wearing a gas mask, carries his weapons as he walks past a damaged tank, after seizing a government military camp used by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, near Idlib, June 13, 2013.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, raises the hand of Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad after awarding him a "medal of valour" at a 2010 function in Tehran.
Vahid SalemiS / AP
This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran.
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A poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs from a wall at a hospital in Damascus on April 27, 2012.
Medyan Dairieh / ZUMA PRESS
Syrian rebels walk to reposition near Mena airport, in Aleppo, Syria, on May 22, 2013.
Narciso Contreras / Polaris
A rebel FSA fighter fires at enemy positions of Assad Forces as skirmishes break out on the front line in Bustan Al Qasr frontline in Aleppo, Syria, April 9, 2013.
Narciso Contreras / Polaris
A bus used as barricade from sniper fire in Aleppo, Syria, on May 3, 2013
Hussein Malla / AP
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, waves to his supporters, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah says Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad’s regime, while strongly suggesting his Iranian-backed militant group could intervene on the government’s side if the need arises.
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Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade prepare during a military exercise May 7, 2013 near the border with Syria, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
Narciso Contreras / Polaris
A rebel FSA fighter fires at enemy positions of Assad forces as skirmishes break out on the front line in Bustan Al Qasr frontline in Aleppo, April 9, 2013.
Narciso Contreras / AP
A Free Syrian Army fighter offers evening prayers beside a damaged poster of Syria’s President Bashar Assad during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Dec. 8, 2012.
Scene in Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
Scene in Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
Street scene, Damascus, Syria, 1940.
Street scene, Damascus, Syria, 1940.
View from above Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
View from above Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
A narrow street in downtown Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
A narrow street in downtown Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
Raising the French flag at Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
Raising the French flag at Aleppo, Syria, 1940.
Archaeological ruins with modern homes in background, Syria, 1940.
Archaeological ruins with modern homes in background, Syria, 1940.
View of the walled town of Tell Bisse, Syria, 1940.
View of the walled town of Tell Bisse, Syria, 1940.
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Displaced Kurdish refugees from Syria at the Domiz camp near Dohuk, Iraq on Dec. 10, 2012.
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FSA fighter stands on a poster of President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, Syria on Oct. 2, 2012.
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Yussef al-Ahmad, Syria's ambassador to the Arab League, is surrounded by cameramen during the Arab League emergency session on Syria at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov.12, 2011 . The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria from all meetings until it implements plan to end bloodshed.
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New arrivals from Syria waiting to be given a tent at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on Sept. 3, 2012.
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Syrian refugees and local residents shout slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad after performing prayers for ‘Id al-Adha outside their embassy in Amman, Jordan
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A Free Syria Army fighter stands at an unofficial rebel camp in an olive grove near the Syrian-Turkish border on Aug. 27, 2012.
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Syria's opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun during a press conference in Cairo, April 24, 2012.
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Syrian rebels stand on a picture of President Bashar al-Assad in the northern city of Aleppo, Aug. 20, 2012.
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People gather during a demonstration in the Syrian city of Homs April 18, 2011. Thousands demanded on Monday the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the funeral of eight protesters killed overnight in the central city of Homs, in escalating unrest despite a promise to lift emergency law.
Alessio Romenzi for TIME
Syria Under Siege: Photographs by Alessio Romenzi
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Syrian army soldiers carry Syrian flags and pictures of President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Aug. 1, 2012, at a ceremony marking the 67th Army Day
AP Photo/Misha Japaridze
Farida Rauf Husen, an ethnic Circassian refugee from Syria reads a Russian text during a lesson in Nalchik, Russia
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Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, listens as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint press conference in Damascus on Oct. 11, 2010
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) speaks during a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at al-Shaab palace in Damascus on October 11, 2010.
Murad Sezer / Reuters
A Syrian opposition demonstrator living in Turkey kicks a poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a protest in central Istanbul August 28, 2011.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addresses parliament in Damascus on March 30, 2011
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Turkish riot policemen push away supporters of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad in front of the Istanbul Congress Center where the "Group of Friends of the Syrian People" meeting is held, in Istanbul, on April 1, 2012.
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad addresses parliament in Damascus, March 30, 2011.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during his visit to Romania, November 10, 2011.
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A pro-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad supporter carries his picture in Damascus June 7, 2011.
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A giant portrait of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is carried in a sea of thousands of Syrian demonstrators in the capital Damascus on November 28, 2011.
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A Syrian protests against the country's President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Dec. 19, 2011
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En route to Homs, photographer William Daniels made this photograph of an Free Syria Army fighter manning a checkpoint on the highway near Al-Qsair, Syria, Feb. 21, 2012.
Ambassador Robert Ford tells TIME that while the Assad regime is creating a violent showdown, it's vital that the opposition refrain from turning to arms
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Protesters hit a picture of Bashra Al-Assad with shoes during a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in London, England, May 7, 2011.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama
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Syrian flags with images of President Bashar Assad decorate the street scene in Damascus on Feb. 5, 2011
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Syrian President Bashar Assad and U.S. President Barack Obama
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