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In this citizen journalism image made from Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 video provided by Nur Media Center, an anti-government activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, one of the men holds 14-month-old Ghina Khalil after they dig her out of rubble in Aleppo, Syria. The chubby toddler was pulled out after men pulled aside rocks, concrete rubble and dust to free her, caught under a smashed building, bombed by the government forces in the area of Masaraniyeh in Aleppo. (AP Photo/Nour Media Center)

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Foreign agendas keep Syrian peace talks going

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January 30, 2014 6:35 pm

U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi gestures during a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Syrians on opposite sides of their countryâs civil war tried again Monday to find common ground, with peace talks focusing on an aid convoy to a besieged city that once more came under mortar attack from the government. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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For UN’s patient Brahimi, no war is irresolvable

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January 28, 2014 7:41 pm

Anas al-Abdeh, center, a member of the Syrian National Coalition, Syria's main political opposition group, is surrounded by journalists after a meeting with a delegation of the Syrian government at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. The Syrian government and the country's opposition held direct talks on Saturday for the first time since they entered into a war three years ago, the UN said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Syria antagonists in ‘half-steps’ of peace talks

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January 25, 2014 10:54 pm

U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi listens during a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. After three days of escalating rhetoric _ and a day spent assiduously avoiding contact within the United Nations _ the two sides will meet âin the same room,â said the U.N. mediator trying to forge an end to the civil war _ or at least a measure of common ground to stem a civil war that has left 130,000 people dead. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Both sides in Syrian talks to meet in ‘same room’

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January 24, 2014 9:26 pm