Photos: Tensions Rise In Mideast Over Syria
August 28, 2013
LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 28: Protesters gather on Whitehall outside Downing Street to campaign for no international military intervention in the ongoing conflict in Syria on August 28, 2013 in London, England. Prime Minister David Cameron is due to Chair a meeting of the National Security Council today before Parliament's recall tomorrow to debate the UK's response to a suspected chemical weapon attack in Syria. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) ( 178267686 )
In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians welcome the UN investigation team in Damascus countryside, Syria, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) ( Mideast Syria )
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube by Harasta Media Centre on August 28, 2013 allegedly shows opposition fighters following a convoy of United Nations (UN) vehicles travelling to the site where rockets had fallen in Damascus' eastern Ghouta suburb during an investigation into a suspected chemical weapons strike near the capital. Rebels who control the area said the inspectors had travelled in a six-vehicle convoy to the suburb of Eastern Ghouta, one of the areas hit in the August 21 attacks. DSK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522376627 )
The UN Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks on developments related to Syria during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. Evidence suggests that some kind of chemical "substance" was used in Syria that may have killed more than 1,000 people, but any military strike in response must first gain U.N. Security Council approval, the U.N.'s special envoy to Syria Brahimi said. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini) ( APTOPIX Switzerland UN Syria Envoy )
In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings due to heavy shelling in Daraa, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video) ( Mideast Syria )
Israel queue up as they wait to collect their gas masks at a distribution center in Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013. Fearing the fallout of a possible US strike on Syria could spill across their northern border and drag the Jewish state into the conflict, Israelis scurried to replace their old gas masks. DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images ( 522372346 )
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - AUGUST 28: Israeli citizens gather at central post office in Tel-Aviv to change and pick up gas mask as tension surrounding the Syria crisis escalates, on August 28, 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. After widespread international condemnation of Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons, the prospect of a US-led military intervention into Syria looms closer. (Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images) ( 178253260 )
An Israeli soldier carries a barrel as they prepare their Merkava tanks stationed in a deployment training area in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on August 28, 2013. The Israeli cabinet authorised a partial call-up of army reservists amid growing expectations of a foreign military strike on neighbouring Syria, army radio reported. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 522385484 )
An Israeli soldier walks next to Merkava tanks stationed in a deployment training area in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on August 28, 2013. Israel will strike back "fiercely" if Syria attacks the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as the US mulled military action against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 522371847 )
British Prime Minister David Cameron chairs a meeting of the National Security Council at 10 Downing Street in central London to discuss a response to the situation in Syria. Britain will on August 28 submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council condemning suspected chemical attacks in Syria and demanding "all necessary measures" to protect civilians. PETTY OFFICER JJ MASSEY/AFP/Getty Images ( 522377803 )
French President Francois Hollande, center, gestures as he speaks with his ministers prior to a defense meeting on the situation in Syria, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday Aug. 28, 2013. From left: foreign minister Laurent Fabius, prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, Francois Hollande, defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and interior minister Manuel Valls. Francois Hollande said Tuesday, that France was prepared to take action against those responsible for gassing people in Syria.(AP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool) ( APTOPIX France Syria )
Israeli soldiers sit on top of their APC's at a deployment area during a military exercise on August 28, 2013 near the border with Syria, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Tension is rising in Israel amid talks of an international military intervention In Syria following reported chemical weapons attacks. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 178270251 )
An Israeli soldier is seen next to an Iron Dome rocket interceptor battery deployed near the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. Israel ordered a special call-up of reserve troops Wednesday as nervous citizens lined up at gas-mask distribution centers, preparing for possible hostilities with Syria. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) ( Mideast Israel Syria )
Israeli soldiers are seen next to a Patriot rocket interceptor battery deployed in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. Israel ordered a special call-up of reserve troops Wednesday as nervous citizens lined up at gas-mask distribution centers, preparing for possible hostilities with Syria. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Syria )
A Syrian-Kurdish refugee man carries a mattress at sunset at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 27, 2013. More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Iraq's Kurdish region in less than two weeks, an official said on August 26, 2013, as authorities rush to house them in more permanent camps. SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images ( 522371482 )
A Syrian-Kurdish refugee poses at sunset in an alley of the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 27, 2013. More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Iraq's Kurdish region in less than two weeks, an official said on August 26, 2013, as authorities rush to house them in more permanent camps. SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images ( 522375787 )
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 28: Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari speaks to reporters outside the Security Council following the introduction of a draft resolution calling for U.N. authority to protect Syrian civilians on August 28, 2013 in New York City. The United Kingdom introduced the proposed resolution following a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria by the Assad regime. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) ( 178270164 )
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 28: Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari (L) speaks to reporters outside the Security Council following the introduction of a draft resolution calling for U.N. authority to protect Syrian civilians on August 28, 2013 in New York City. The United Kingdom introduced the proposed resolution following a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria by the Assad regime. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) ( 178270165 )
A wounded Syrian man is treated at the Israeli Ziv hospital on August 28, 2013 in the northern town of Safed, Israel. About 140 Syrians who have been wounded in fighting in neighboring Syria have been treated in Israeli hospitals since the beginning of the Syrian Civil war. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 178255709 )
A wounded Syrian man is treated at the Israeli Ziv hospital on August 28, 2013 in the northern town of Safed, Israel. About 140 Syrians who have been wounded in fighting in neighboring Syria have been treated in Israeli hospitals since the beginning of the Syrian Civil war. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 178255734 )
A Syrian refugee girl walks at a temporary refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. U.N. chemical weapons experts headed to a Damascus suburb on Wednesday for a new tour of areas struck by a purported poison gas attack, activists said, as the U.S. laid the groundwork for a possible punitive strike and the U.N. chief pleaded for more time for diplomacy. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) ( APTOPIX Mideast Lebanon Syria )
Bryan Moore protests any possible United States military involvement with Syria at Pasco-Hernando Community College's Spring Hill, Fla. campus during scheduled town hall meeting with U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared unequivocally that the United States has "concluded" that the Syrian government carried out a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians. But new hurdles emerged that appeared to slow the formation of an international coalition that could use military force to punish Syria. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Octavio Jones) ( US-Syria-Protests )
A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on August 26, 2013 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad giving an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia in Damascus. Assad wants to show that he is serene and determined as he faces a possible action following last week's devastating chemical weapons attack. AFP/Getty Images ( 522377876 )
Members of the local Syrian community rally for the second day in a row against the United States' involvement in Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 in Allentown, Pa. President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared unequivocally that the United States has "concluded" that the Syrian government carried out a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians. But new hurdles emerged that appeared to slow the formation of an international coalition that could use military force to punish Syria. (AP Photo/Chris Post) ( US-Syria-Protest )
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